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Updated: May 1, 2025
Meanwhile, Haldor, Erling, Glumm, Hakon of Drontheim, Ulf, Guttorm Stoutheart, and all the other Sea-kings, not only of Horlingdal, but of the surrounding valleys, with a host of smaller bonders, unfreemen, and thralls, went down to the shores of the bay and prepared for battle.
The next class was that of the "unfreemen". These were freed slaves who had wrought out or purchased their freedom, but who, although personally free, and at liberty to go where and serve whom they pleased, were not free to attend the legislative assemblies. They were unfree of the Things, and hence their apparently contradictory designation.
Masters, unfreemen, and thralls, mistresses and maidens, were there, cutting and turning and piling up the precious crop with might and main; for they knew that the weather could not be trusted to, and the very lives of their cattle depended on the successful ingathering of the hay.
To admit them therefore to choose a Christian pastor would be a method, introducing ruin and we; a method equally absurd as for unfreemen to choose the magistrates of a burgh: rather, equally absurd as if ignorant babes, and our enemies the French, should be sustained electors of our members of parliament and privy council.
'Scots or English, it was too much for me to lose, said the provost; so you see I am not a person to pack or peel with Jacobites, and such unfreemen as poor Redgauntlet. 'Granted, granted, Mr. Crosbie; and what then? said Alan Fairford.
They might sell them, kill them, or do with them as they pleased. Thralls were permitted to purchase their freedom and all the descendants of those freed thralls, or unfreemen, were free. The clothing of the unfreemen was finer than that of the thralls.
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