What is "joul"

Usage examples of "joul".

Together they went to the fore of the ship, where old Joul still sat in the wavereader's perch.

Sewn into their shrouds, and with Joul himself summoned to chant their deeds and kin names, and the captain to empty into the waves the farewell cup for their going.

Oddly enough, at the last moment he gained them another recruit — old Joul, who actually appeared where they were assembling the pack train with an animal of his own, a seaman's well-corded chest on its pack frame.

Simond was busy with the captain and Joul trying to throw a rope to the Latt hunter and draw him back.

That struggle grew less — even as had the movements where Joul had gone down.

There was only left in the very dim light Simond kneeling on Joul, the older man's arms outspread and pinned now to the rock of the passageway — while Odanki, in spite of favoring his leg, held the captain in a hug like that of a wasbear which had closed for the final crushing of some prey.

Now she took note that both Captain Stymir and Joul had arranged themselves on either side of the Latt hunter and on his breast lay one of the feathers from the shaman's cloak.