Right, - thanks LN - I appreciate your explanation
Kveðja
Patricia 
 
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From: llama_nom
Date: 13/06/2007 12:57:48
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Chapter one of Eirk's Saga Rauda Patricia's Translation
 

--- In norse_course@ yahoogroups. com, "Patricia Wilson"
<originalpatricia@ ...> wrote:

>

> I am bothered still - well being me I would be - about the men being
> freeborn - weren't they - and being regarded as Slaves - cannot get
my head
> round that

Presumably being of noble birth just wasn't thought of as incompatible
with enslavement. Another example that comes to mind:

Þat er sagt, at Heiðrekr konungr átti þræla nokkura, þá er hann hafði
tekit í vestrvíking. Þeir váru níu saman. Þeir váru af stórum ættum ok
kunnu illa ófrelsi sínu. (Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks).