nithing

Now he had broken his word and was Nithing in the eyes of the law.

Would it not serve to call him a nithing before the folk?

Then it was a nithing's trick to stand aside and give me no help.

This was done to stop the soul of a cowardly person, or "Nithing".

You will leave this village as a Nithing.

These physical afflictions were regarded as furthermore supporting weakness of a nithing.

Swein was declared a 'nithing', that is 'a man without honour' and he died returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Earlier in the saga Egil goes as far as to construct a Nithing pole, a sign of disrespect in medieval Scandinavian society.

Have I not just shown you I worship you, my toothsome sweet lag "Tis just that he stole my bride from me, the damned nithing!"

A thing I heard said about you is that though you be foremost in battle, you are doomed to do ill deeds, nithing's work, over and over and over.

Runes were also employed by Egill during the raising of the Nithing Pole against King Eirik Bloodaxe and Queen Gunnhildr.

Godrio clenched his hands into fists as he stood there, fighting the urge to leap into the clearing and bury his knife up to the hilt in the nithing's chest.

During proto-historic Iron Age, the religious fertility rites of the marginalized Maternal Megalith Culture stratum had been ethnocentrically interpreted as the evil, lewd seid magic of a nithing in proto-historic Norse and Germanic sources.

Most notably were limping as an outer indication of being a nithing (such as in the story of Rögnvald Straightleg whose last name was in fact but an ironic offence as his legs were actually crippled), and the belief that sorcerers would not only give birth to animals but also to crippled human children.