A landless man without home or fortune, selling his sword to the highest bidder, he asked only that the cause be just.

These were landless men and probably thieves, wanted, maybe, by the law.

"And let my son live always in exile, a landless man?"

The names of landless men or those who held their lands from a landlord would not appear in this record.

They are based on historical bands of landless young men in early medieval Ireland known as kerns.

I've landless men to send over to take the places of the dead, and fowls and beasts to get them started again.

The laird there is no friend to landless men.

Then - well, I was now a landless man.

In return, the landless men and women promise to sleep in the grass, away from the house, where his mother lives.

Only a landless man can afford to plunge into marriage like this boy, without a single furlong to gain.