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A sudden sally of the garrison overpowered his guards, and the bishop was carried into the castle to try the fortune of a siege once more. For this siege the king again appealed to the country and called for the help of all under the old Saxon penalty of the disgraceful name of "nithing."
From below came a sudden snarl, a sudden savage yell, the noise of struggling bodies, and then a shriek of another kind from Kark, no longer a cry of mere apprehension, but a sharp piercing scream of bodily agony. "Let me go!" Alwin panted through his muffled jaws. "It is a nithing deed for us to permit the death of one of our number so. Let me go, Rolf he is a human being. Let me go!"
'Sides, as I told yez, I don't know nithing about kids. Old Mrs. Billy Crawford, she was here when it was born and she washed it and rolled it up in that flannel, and Jen she's tended it a bit since. The critter is warm enough. This weather would melt a brass monkey." Rilla was silent, looking down at the crying baby.
I have tried to be brave, but I am really a woman; it is not possible for me to have a man's heart." The grinning shadows mouthed at her. "You have not dared to be a woman," they mocked. "You have not dared to be a woman, so you must dare to be a man." A night wind shuddered through the trees, and the hovering shades seemed to hiss in her ear. "Coward! Traitor! Nithing!
xii Nidring, niddering, or nithing, may be beet expressed by "worthless ". It was the extreme term of reproach to a Saxon. xiii The "Lodbrokar-Quida", which is still in existence. By some authorities Ragnar is said to have been the father of Ingvar and Hubba, but the dates are most uncertain. xiv "The Fates" of the Northern mythology. xv St.
Spelling is not appropriate or inappropriate, elegant or inelegant; it is right or wrong. We do not greatly blame a man for turn-down collars when the vogue is erect; nor, in these liberal days, for theological eccentricity; but we esteem him "Nithing" and an outcast if he but drop a "p" from opportunity. It is not an anecdote, but a scandal, if we say a man cannot spell his own name.
Keep your life and instead I will torture every Angle I can get under my grip, for it is they who have turned a great hero into a nithing may they despise you as you have despised your people for their sakes!" Invoking the curse with a sweep of his handless arm, he strode from the room.
He lay hidden near the gate till he saw my father come, in the dusk, from hunting, when he fell upon him and slew him, and forced an entrance the nithing! When he had five-and-fifty men and my father but twelve!" She paused, with set lips and head flung high. The nun got down stiffly beside her and laid a gentle hand upon her knee. "Think not of it, my daughter," she urged.
Godwine's influence secured his pardon, but on his very return to seek it Swein murdered his cousin Beorn who had opposed the reconciliation and again fled to Flanders. A storm of national indignation followed him over-sea. The meeting of the Wise men branded him as "nithing," the "utterly worthless," yet in a year his father wrested a new pardon from the King and restored him to his earldom.
The English rallied to the royal standard; Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester, the one surviving bishop of English blood, defeated the insurgents in the west; while the King, summoning the freemen of country and town to his host under pain of being branded as "nithing" or worthless, advanced with a large force against Rochester where the barons were concentrated.
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