When the three heroes return to Ulster, Cú Roí appears to each in the guise of a hideous churl ( bachlach ) and challenges them to behead him, then allow him to return and behead them.

Cú Roí mac Dáire of Munster settles it by visiting each in the guise of a hideous churl and challenging them to behead him, then allow him to return and behead them in return.

The Coat of Padarn Beisrudd ( Pais Badarn Beisrydd ): if a well-born man put it on, it would be the right size for him ; if a churl, it would not go upon him.

Finally Cú Roí, disguised as a giant churl, challenged each of the three to behead him, then allow him to return and behead them in return.

The next morning, as the queen was endeavouring to make peace between Roland and Henry Seyton, who treated the page as a churl, his grandmother emerged from a recess and declared him to be the son of Julian Avenel, who was killed in the battle with Sir John Foster ; Lord Seyton also recognised him, and insisted that his son should shake hands with him.

In the Migration period the standard weregeld for a freeman appears to have been 200 solidi ( shillings ), an amount reflected as the basic fee due for the death of a churl ( or ceorl ) both in later Anglo-Saxon and continental law codes.

" David Marryweather from Drowned in Sound wrote that it is a " nectar-laden pop bloom which have all the dashing whirl and giddying pull of a fairground waltzer, and likewise could only be hated by a dullard or a churl, have Madonna pouring robo-diva soul all over Mirwais ’ perverse alchemy.

Finally, a hideous, giant churl, carrying a huge axe, appeared at Emain Macha.

His accomplice, a " churl " by the name of Claudius, claims in court that Virginia is his run-away slave and Appius decrees that her real father must relinquish her to the court.

Lóegaire accepted the challenge and cut off the churl's head, and the churl picked up his head and left.

A churl ( etymologically the same name as Charles / Carl and Old High German karal ), in its earliest Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) meaning, was simply " a man ", but the word soon came to mean " a non-servile peasant ", still spelled ċeorl ( e ), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen.

Names such as Carl and Charles are derived from cognates of churl or ċeorle.

While the word churl went down in the social scale, the first name derived from the same etymological source (" Karl " in German, " Charles " in French and English, " Carlos " in Spanish etc.

* Apemantus, sometimes spelled Apermantus, a philosopher and churl.

The general prologue to The Canterbury Tales describes the Miller, Robyn, as a stout and gracious churl fond of wrestling.

The similarity between " Ceorl " and the personal name " Charles " is no accident: " Charles ", " ceorl " and " churl ", along with the modern German name " Karl " derive from the same Proto-Germanic word * karlaz.

Nine months later, a son, Karl ( churl or freeman ) was born, who had a ruddy complexion.

The legal system depended on a system of oaths, in which the value of different individuals swearing on behalf of the plaintiff or defendant varied according to their social status-the word of a companion of the king, for example, was was worth twelve times that of a churl.

Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a churl and a bully.

His uncle Claudius was spared only because Caligula kept him as a laughing stock.

Leicester was keen to impress Elizabeth in a final attempt to convince her to marry him, and no expense was spared.

The same athlete could be an ephedros more than once, and this could of course be of great advantage to him as the ephedros would be spared the wear and tear of the rounds imposed on his opponent ( s ).

The Anonymus Valesianus wrote that Odoacer, " taking pity on his youth ", spared Romulus ' life and granted him an annual pension of 6, 000 solidi before sending him to live with relatives in Campania.

Because of Ajax's impiety, the Acheaens, urged by Odysseus, wanted to stone him to death, but he fled to Athena's altar, and was spared.

Minos asked Aegeus for his son's assassins, and if they were to be handed to him, the town would be spared.

However he relented when impressed by the Thing's ability to give him a challenge ( breaking his ribs ), and relentless spirit to never give up, and spared the Earth and declared the bout a draw rather than kill his opponent.

This proved to be an ironic twist of fate which ultimately spared him at least 14 more years ' imprisonment in a mainland prison afterwards.

Nepos spared Glycerius ' life, and appointed him bishop of Salona.

" Sir Garfield Barwick was not spared Whitlam's invective ; the former Prime Minister described him as " evil ".

In the TOS episode " This Side of Paradise ", Leila Kalomi hints at having had a special relationship with Spock some six years earlier, though Spock's remark that he hoped his half-human blood would see him " spared " the agony of pon farr in the episode Amok Time suggests that their relationship was more casual.

While the Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos charges him with " cruelty and perfidy ", Lysander – according to Xenophon – nonetheless spared the population of captured Greek poleis such as Lampsacus, perhaps in order to gain a useful reputation for mildness.

The plan is almost foiled when Bishop gets suspicious and has one of the men flogged in an attempt to make him talk, and Blood is spared a similar fate when a Spanish squadron attacks the town, During the raid, Blood and his fellow slaves escape, seize control of the Spanish raiders ' ship and sail away to begin a life of piracy, in which Blood soon achieves incredible success and fame.

When Octavian conquered Egypt, he spared Alexander, but took him, his sister and his brother Ptolemy Philadelphus from Egypt to Rome.

Caligula began his first year as emperor in 38, and there was a severe conflict between him and Seneca ; the emperor is said to have spared his life only because he expected Seneca's natural life to be near its end.

For this reason the Tyndarids always showed him much gratitude, and whenever the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica, they always spared the land belonging to Academus which lay on the Cephissus, six stadia from Athens.

When the servile Athenians, feigning to share the emperor's displeasure with the sophist, pulled down a statue which they had erected to him, Favorinus remarked that if only Socrates also had had a statue at Athens, he might have been spared the hemlock.

Lugh spared him because he promised to teach the Tuatha Dé agriculture.

A jury spared him a potential death sentence, choosing a sentence of " life in prison without parole " instead for the young man, who was 17 years old at the time of the crime spree.

Insulting Captain America as old and out of date, the Skull spared him but took several of Captain America's allies as part of his army.

In the immediate aftermath Ricimer spared his life, but forced him to become Bishop of Piacenza.

Even they, however, were not spared negative reactions from him here and there, especially in his blistering review of the first production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in 1874.

" Then they continued fighting at the gates, till they penetrated it, and slew the etheling and all the men that were with him ; except one, who was the godson of the alderman, and whose life was spared, though he was often wounded.