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Saxon ‘“threl,” was a slave of the lowest caste. He 
was a slave of the master, not of the premises ; 
he had no “bond,” no caste, no fellowship. He 
was a slave without “ bounds’—the lowest of his 
race, without one privilege or any protection. 
“ Martyrdom,” “ hallidom,” the doom of a martyr, 
‘“‘holy doom,” “be me hallidom,” by my holy doom, 
a provincial expression. ‘ Earldom,” the domi- 
nion of an earl. ‘ Dukedom,” the same with 
respect to a duke, although the term was not in 
use until the Norman conquest; as the Saxons 
had no “ dukes” among their nobility. ‘‘Christen- 
dom,” the dominion of the church, &c. 
In the kindred dialects we have the Gothic ’ 
*domjan,” to give judgment, pronounce a 
sentence or doom. In Icelandic is ‘‘doma;” 
and in Danish, “doémme,” both of the same 
import as our root. While the German re- 
tains the root only in compounds, as Christen- 
thum,” Christendom: ‘‘heidenthum,” heathen- 
ism, &c. 
In the history of this word there is much 
implied, and thence thereby much to be learned. 
It intimates to us the trifling distinction between 
the early kings of the early Teutons and Scanda- 
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