The king has slaves in his household, men and women, besides his guard of housecarles and his bearsark champions.

A king's daughter has thirty slaves with her, and the footmaiden existed exactly as in the stories of the Wicked Waiting Maid.

He is not to be awakened in his slumbers (cf.

St.Olaf's Life, where the naming of King Magnus is the result of adherence to this etiquette).

A champion weds the king's leman.
His thanes are created by the delivery of a sword, which the king bolds by the blade and the thane takes by the hilt.