thane
thegn , auch: thanage old use

They were witnesses only, there to report back to their thanes what had been said and done.

"But the thanes can still use force, when they arrive?"

Though none had yet brought it up, he could sense the mood of the thanes was changing.

It had been held before 1066 by two thanes freely and jointly.

From the hall, word was passed around the hold to the thanes of the clans.

Another score of mounted men set off along the path behind the thanes.

There are only poor pickings to be expected from country thanes.

But even some of the thanes would be loath to hand over men sent by the king to the Church.

The two largest warrens would be common ground for all the thanes.

See if you can dredge up representatives from the other thanes.

This short scene among the Scottish thanes gets across several plot points: 1.

His had been the speech that led the thanes to join together and name Duncan king.

Better to recruit some of those well-fed thanes we saw.

The first thing Malcolm does is acknowledge how much he owes to the thanes.

From that day forward, the place would be known as the Valley of the Thanes.

Most of his army, the country thanes and their levies, were already making for the rear.

Not only will the slaves be with us, but the freemen and half the thanes.

"I will pay were-gild for the death of your thanes.

To date 129 Thanes have earned a spot on the hall of fame.

Just the same, his thanes and aldermen addressed him with something like respect.

Spies were sent to observe the activities of rival thanes.

"How did you fare at the council of thanes?"

I ask your pledge of peace and a council of Thanes.

Once he was atop the stone, the thanes passed the chisel to him.

He dismounted and tossed his reins to one of the thanes.

In a similar manner a successful thegn might hope to become an earl.

A less privileged type is the king's thegn who was without any such representative.

The stone was raised in memory of a man who was a thegn.

A "median" thegn did not hold his land directly from the king but through an intermediary lord.

Say you can't talk about it until the investigation has been completed, and refer thegn to the district attorney's office.

A thegn was a class of retainer in Scandinavia.

Finally, there was also a lower type of median thegn, who did not (yet) meet these requirements of land and service.

One 11th century lay goldsmith was even a thegn.

'We had your story checked by two sources, and one of thegn knew all about it without having to make even a single inquiry.

The clerk looked at thegn rather oddly.

Thanage can also denote the rank held by such a thegn.

About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn.

The term thegn describes a class of retainer.

After he repudiated her, she married a northern thegn Kilvert.

A thegn held one ferling of this land in the time of king Edward.

Under their command a thegn was killed, "whose name was Wipped".

Geburs, peasants who worked land belonging to a thegn, formed a lower class still.

At least two of thegn did, the Hangzhou and the Shantou.

The thegn had a military significance, and its usual Latin translation was miles, meaning soldier, although minister was often used.

He excommunicated a thegn who was in an unlawful marriage and forbade Christians to accept the man's hospitality.

The runic text describes the deceased man Fótr as being "a very good thegn."

A king's thegn was a person of great importance, the contemporary idea being shown by the Latin translation of the words as comes (compare "count").

This interpretation would suggest that Beorma was a royal name, or else the name of a king's thegn.

Alwine, a thegn of Earl Harold, held this manor and could sell.

The term thegn means a retainer of a king or nobleman below the rank of high-reeve.