{"id":41052,"count":1,"description":"Thrall (Old Norse \u00fer\u00e6ll) was the term for a serf or unfree servant in Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age. Thralls were the lowest in the social order and usually provided unskilled labor during the Viking era.\nThrall is from the Old Norse \u00fer\u00e6ll meaning a person who is in bondage or serfdom. The Old Norse term was loaned into late Old English, as \u00fer\u00e6l. The corresponding native term in Anglo-Saxon society was \u00feeow or esne.\nThe term is from a Common Germanic root *\u00fereh- \"to run\" and the Old Norse term in origin referred to \"a runner\". Old High German had a cognate, dregil \"servant, runner\".\nThe English derivation thraldom is of High Medieval date. The verb to enthrall is of Early Modern origin (metaphorical use from the 1570s, literal use from 1610).\nThralls were the lowest class workers in Scandinavian society. When Christianity arrived in Northern Europe, there was increasing demand for non-Christian slaves, and the Scandinavians had a de facto monopoly on trading them because...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/thrall\/","name":"Thrall","slug":"thrall","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=41052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}