The realm goes to pieces, to be eventually pulled back together in part by a remote kinsman of Hrolf's.

But the families seem very loving and united, and they are sustained by a strong affection that extends to the remotest kinsman.

Every eldest son in the mountains will know his position threatened, and his younger brother or his remote kinsmen more his enemy than now."

He was a dandified but not effeminate man, soldier and aesthete, a remote kinsman of the royal house, and of course too aristocratic ever to have worked for hire.

For who could imagine that an early nineteenth-century Zuwayi, involved in a dispute with his brothers, or cousins or remoter kinsmen, would refrain from applying to Turkish authorities if he thought that might help him win?