Dia:

Slavery was of important significance to Viking society, for everyday chores and huge scale construction and also to trade and the financial system. Thralls had been servants and staff in the farms and bigger households of the Karls and Jarls, and they had been used for setting up fortifications, ramps, canals, mounds, roads and comparable onerous work initiatives. According to the Rigsthula, Thralls had been despised and seemed down upon. New thralls have been supplied by either the sons and daughters of thralls or they were captured abroad. The Vikings often deliberately captured many people on their raids in Europe, to enslave them as thralls. Travelling to Sweden? This was true in Normandy, Ireland, and all through the British Isles. Although up to date accounts say little