The first time the term Jarl is used by a slave to address a free man is in Marauders of Gor, Page 63
"Yes," she said "- my Jarl." To the bond-maid the meanest of the free men of the North is her jarl.
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 63
This quote shows how slaves in the north are accustomed to using the term Jarl.
"Before you I stand more than prisoner, my Jarl," said she.
"I do not understand," said Svein Blue Tooth.
She did not raise her head.
"You need not address me as your Jarl, my dear," said Svein Blue Tooth. "I am not your Jarl."
"But every free man is my Jarl," she said. "You see, my Jarl," said she, lifting her head proudly and pulling her rich, glistening robes some inches down upon her shoulders, "I wear the collar of Ivar Forkbeard."
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 200
The one time Tarl mentions hearing the term Master instead of Jarl is when he quotes the girl Leah. This would have been the perfect time but Tarl makes no comment that the use of one term over the other was offensive.
She laughed. "Win Leah, Master!" she challenged. She, with the archery talmit, was the prize in the shooting.
I noted her brand. It was a southern brand, the first letter, in cursive script, of Kajira, the most common expression for a Gorean female slave. It was entered deeply in her left thigh. Further, I noticed that she had addressed me as "Master," rather than "my Jarl." I took it, from these indications, that she had learned her collar in the south;
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 166
The term Jarl, as used in the north, actually seems (to me at least) to be more of a term of office or position than merely a substitute for Master.
In other words, if you substitute the word Master for the word Jarl in the following quotes, they just don't make as much sense.
Svein Blue Tooth was the high jarl of Torvaldsland, in the sense that he was generally regarded as the most powerful. In his hall, it was said he fed a thousand men. Beyond this his heralds could carry the war arrow, it was said, to ten thousand farms. Ten ships he had at his own wharves, and, it was said, he could summon a hundred more "He is your Jarl?" I asked.
"He was my Jarl," said Ivar Forkbeard.
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 93
About my forehead I wore a Jarl's talmit. This morning Svein Blue Tooth, before cheering men, had tied it about my head. "Tarl Red Hair," had said he, "with this talmit accede to Jarlship in Torvaldsland!"
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 288
"You speak clearly for one of the south," he said. He thrust the hock of roast tarsk to me. I took it and, holding it with both hands, cut at it with my teeth. I tore away a good piece of meat. I had not had food since the morning, when I arrived at the fair.
"My thanks," I said.
"I am Oleg," he said.
"I have been called Jarl Red Hair in the north," I said.
"Jarl!" he cried. "Forgive me, I did not know!"
"The meat is good," I said. I handed it back to him. It was true that in the north, by the word of Svein Blue Tooth, I had stood upon the shields as Jarl.
"I fought with you," he said, "at the camp of the beasts. I saw you once near the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar."
"It was a good fight," I said.
"It was," said he, smacking his lips.
"Is the north quiet?" I asked. "Is there Kur activity in Torvaldsland?"
"No," said he, "no more than an occasional stray. The north is quiet."
"Good," I said. The Kurii were not active in Torvaldsland. They had been driven from that bleak, rocky land by the mighty men of the high-roofed halls.
He grinned at me.
"Good hunting," said I, "in the slave markets."
"Yes, Jarl," said he, grinning, lifting the hock of roast tarsk. He turned toward the nearest market. In a few moments he hurled the bone of the tarsk from him, wiping his hands on the sides of his jacket. Over his shoulder hung the great ax of Torvaldsland.
Beasts of Gor Book 12 Pages 44 - 45
After Beasts of Gor, there is no further mention of Jarl as it relates to its use by a slave.
