What is "nithings"

Usage examples of "nithings".

So I let him go free-save for an eye, to prove I meant what I said-and bade him tell them that unless they sent me my daugh-ter and granddaughter, and for my justice the nithings who defiled her, no man in the Bygd will rest until every last troll of them is slain.

The courtly saga-sayer was about to practise his art before a group of nithings, wolfsheads, men who knew the difference between romance and reality.