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| 10 | 89 | In the View more quotes about crowd">crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages to the Thing were not, after all, ventures of raiding; they were not enterprises of warfare; there were three reasons for bringing such girls; they were for the pleasure of the men; they served, as display objects, to indicate the wealth of their masters; and they could be bought and sold. |
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| 10 | 86 | Their cloaks were usually scarlet or purple, long and swirling, and held with golden clasps. |
| 10 | 87 | They wore them, always, as is common in Torvaldsland, in such a way that the right arm, the sword arm, is free. |
| 10 | 88 | Their men, too, often wore cloaks, and, about their arms, spiral rings of gold and silver, and, on their wrists, jewel-studded bands. |
| 10 | 89 | In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages to the Thing were not, after all, ventures of raiding; they were not enterprises of warfare; there were three reasons for bringing such girls; they were for the pleasure of the men; they served, as display objects, to indicate the wealth of their masters; and they could be bought and sold. |
| 10 | 90 | The Forkbeard had brought with him, too, some bondmaids. |
| 10 | 91 | They followed us. |
| 10 | 92 | Their eyes were bright; their steps were eager; they had been long isolated on the farm; rural slave girls, the Forkbeard's wenches, they were fantastically stimulated to see the crowds; they looked upon the Thing-Fields with pleasure and excitement; even had they been permitted, some of them, to look upon certain of the contests. |