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       Collaring of Northern Women
   DIR By: Oreo
       Date: February 25, 2014, 11:01 pm
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       > Mead was replenished in the drinking horn by a dark-haired
       bond-maid, who filled it, head down, shyly, not looking at me.
       She was the only one in the hall who was not stripped, though,
       to be sure, her kirtle, by order of her master, was high on her
       hips, and, over the shoulders, was split to the belly. Like any
       other wench, on her neck, riveted, was a simple collar of black
       iron. She had worn a Kur collar before, and, with hundreds of
       others, had been rescued from the pens. The fixing of the Kur
       collar, it had been decided by Svein Blue Tooth, was equivalent
       to the fixing of the metal collar and, in itself, was sufficient
       to reduce the subject to slavery, which condition deprives the
       subject of legal status, and rights attached thereto, such as
       the right   to stand in companionship. Accordingly, to her
       astonishment, Bera, who had been the companion of Svein Blue
       Tooth, discovered suddenly that she was only one wench  among
       others. From a line, as part of his spoils, the Blue Tooth
       picked her out. She had displeased him mightily in recent years.
       Yet was the Blue Tooth fond of the arrogant wench. It was not
       until he had switched her, like any other girl, that she
       understood that their relationship had under-gone a
       transformation, and that she was, truly, precisely what she
       seemed to be, now his bond-maid. No longer would her dour
       presence deprive his feasts of joy. No longer would she, in her
       free woman’s scorn, shower contempt on bond-maids, trying to
       make them ashamed of their beauty. She, too, now, was no more
       than they. She now had new tasks to which to address herself,
       cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her
       own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of
       inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth,
       Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she knew, as an
       imbonded wench, that others would; it was not, indeed, until her
       reduction to slavery that she realized, for the first time, how
       fine a male, how attractive and how powerful, was Svein Blue
       Tooth, whom she had for years taken for granted; seeing him
       objectively for the first time, from the perspective of a slave
       girl, who is nothing herself, and comparing him with other free
       men, she realized suddenly how mighty how splendid and
       magnificent he truly was. She set herself diligently to please
       him, in service and in pleasure, and, if he would permit it, in
       love. Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with mead, from
       the heavy, hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried.
       She was sweating. She was barefoot. The bond-maid was happy.
       Marauders of Gor, page 277-278
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       > Now came slave girls bearing skins of water. They walked
       slowly, bent over, placing each step carefully, that they not
       lose their balance, heavy skins, bulging and damp, across their
       shoulders. I saw Honey Cake among them, and the Forkbeard’s
       golden girl, the southern silk girl, too, she laboring as any
       other bond-maid. I do not think that in the south she had been
       forced so to work. She staggered. “Hurry,” said the girl behind
       her, “or we will be beaten!” The girl moaned, and staggered to
       the gangplank, and, slowly, foot by foot, her bare feet pressed
       by the weight deeply into the rough boards, climbed, carrying
       her burden, to the deck of the ship. Among the girls, too, I saw
       Bera, she one of the Blue Tooth’s girls, one of several, who had
       been placed under the orders of Wulfstan to assist in the
       loading. She was naked. The other girls, resenting the tunic she
       had been given, had stripped her. Svein Blue Tooth had laughed
       Masters do not interfere in the squabbles of slaves.
       > Marauders of Gor, page 288-289
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       #Post#: 175--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Collaring of Northern Women
   DIR By: Oreo
       Date: February 25, 2014, 11:07 pm
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       > "Accordingly, to her astonishment, Bera, who had been the
       companion of Svein Blue Tooth, discovered suddenly that she was
       only one wench among others. From a line, as part of his spoils,
       the Blue Tooth picked her out. She had displeased him mightily
       in recent years. Yet was the Blue Tooth fond of the arrogant
       wench. It was not until he had switched her, like any other
       girl, that she understood that their relationship had undergone
       a transformation, and that she was, truly, precisely what she
       seemed to be, now his bond-maid."
       >
       > Marauders of Gor, pg. 277-278
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