Talk:Housecarl

message: Would the term be related to "Churl" which comes from Ceorl or Karl? Carrionluggage 05:46, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Churl is pretty much never used in English outside the study of mediaeval society, but the adjective churlish—meaning petulant or ungracious—is alive an well.  Not that I can particularly see why it seems so important to establish a connection between churl and housecarl—it doesn't have any relevance to the article.  Binabik80 00:17, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I know the guard contained all types of saxons and scandanavians, but I find it hard to believe that this many saxon huscarls and thegns were in the guard in the 12th century. First of all the battle of Hastings was in 1054, so probably the few huscarls that survived the battle would be dead by 1100, secondly the entire army of Harold probably only had 8000 men, and probably only a couple thousand huscarls at most, even if every single one of the few that survived Hasting (and Stamford bridge for that matter) made it to Constantinople (which is a ridiculous proposition) there still definetly wouldn't have been enough to form the majority of the Varangian unit.  Anyways Since there is no source for the claim and I don't have a source to dicprove it (even though it is not necessary to prove a negative) I have changed it to - 
:"Some of these reached Byzantium and along with other Saxon Englishmen joined the Varangian Guard. In fact by the the 12th century, the Varangian Guard contained so many Saxons that the entire units was sometimes called 'the English Guard'." 
I figure it is more plausible that other Saxons had joined them in order to warrant calling it the English Guard.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 11:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huscarls in the Varangian Guard 

message: At one point in the article it states that a kingdom would have no more than 2000 Housecarls.  2 lines later it mentions England having 3000.  Need I say more?
Christiangoth 13:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of Housecarls 

message: Didn't the various Earls of Mercia, Wessex and Northumberland retain their own body of housecarls? The article seems to indicate they only formed a bodyguard for the elected King of the time...Narson 15:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Housecarls only for the king?

message: I think it should be more appropriately rephrased, given it seems to make "Housecarl" out to be the name of the type of NPCs as a whole. The term used in the game is "Huscarl" and it's only ever been used once for one particular group in one specific area in the whole game. The actual NPCs are the Vrykul, which are considered "Half-giant norse-like men." The rest of the Vrykul in the game do not have "Huscarl" or any deviation of the word in their names/titles. 
:MykaelCreo (talk) 14:21, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In reference to the Trivia. 

message: Methinks it could be good if some reference from Housecarl to Waincarl/Waincarle be made somewhere in this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.151.233.129 (talk) 21:24, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waincarl/Waincarle 

message: Why are these Runestones always just laying in random places and not in a museum and safe?119.92.93.84 (talk) 00:19, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Museum 

message: Word not mentioned in article. Equinox ◑ 23:20, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does "lithsman" redirect here?