Thursday 9 April 2015

Inthrall

Inthrall: verb. To place into slavery or servitude while being in Scandinavia. This word has often been confused with the word 'enthrall', but quite understandably this is not a switch that wants to make. The word was particularly popular in discussing the history of early Britain, due to the frequent cases of inthralling conducted by Vikings at the time. One may say, "But hold on, Britain ain't Scandinavia!" Of course one would be right in our current time, however at that point in history, there were so many vikings and so few free non-vikings that Britain is a technicality of Scandinavia at that point in history.

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