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 Henchmen and house-carles may be periphrased by calling them House-Guard, or Wage-Band, or Men of Honor: thus sang Sigvatr:


 * I learned the Warrior's Wage-Band
 * On the water fought that battle
 * Newly: 't is not the smallest
 * Snow-shower of Shields I tell of.

And thus also:


 * When on the Steed of Cables
 * The clashing steel was meeting,
 * 'T was not as when a maid bears
 * The Chief's mead to the Honor-Winners.

The service-fee which headmen give is called wages and gifts; thus sang Óttarr the Swarthy:


 * I needs must use the Breaker
 * Of the Battle-Glow of good men;
 * Here is the watch war-doughty
 * Of the Wise King assembled.

Earls and chiefs and henchmen are periphrased by calling them Counsellors or Speech-Friends or Seat-Mates of the King, as Hallfredr sang: