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Thrall
Sign in to savethumb|Erling Skjalgsson sets his thralls to day-work ([[Erik Werenskiold, 1899)]]
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Early Germanic law
- Thrall slave trade
- Society
- Conditions and rights
- End of slavery
- See also
- Further reading
- References
thumb|Erling Skjalgsson sets his thralls to day-work ([[Erik Werenskiold, 1899)]]
A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The status of slave (, ) contrasts with that of the freeman (, ) and the nobleman (, ).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thrall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.