Crossword-Solution: HOUSEMEN 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Thiodolf tells of this:-- "Brave Magnus, from the stern springing On to the stem, where swords were ringing From his sea-raven's beak of gold Deals death around--the brave! the bold! The earl's housemen now begin To shrink and fall: their ranks grow thin-- The king's luck thrives--their decks are cleared, Of fighting men no more appeared.

There he unpacked his merchandise, showed it to Orm and the housemen, and bade Orm take therefrom such things as he would.

Erlingsen and his housemen brought home from their sporting rambles, sometimes a young bear, sometimes wild ducks, or the noble cock-of-the-woods, as big as a turkey, or a string of snipes, or golden plovers, or ptarmigan.

Once a year, too, Erlingsen wrapped himself in furs, and drove himself in his sledge, followed by one of his housemen on another and a larger, to the great winter fair at Tronyem, where the Lapps repaired to sell their frozen reindeer meat, their skins, a few articles of manufacture, and where travelling Russian merchants came with the productions of other climates, and found eager customers in the inhabitants who thronged to this fair to make their purchases.

She informed me that Atlung was at the factories, and would be home to dinner, that is to say in about an hour, and that the mistress of the house was at one of the housemen's places I had seen from the road; it seemed that there was an old man lying at the point of death there.