Thegn

a Saxon knight known as Sir Ordgar, a "thegn," (1) or baronet, of ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)

Early medieval peasants ended up learning the language of the local thegn; later medieval gentlehommes ended up learning the language of their peasants. ❋ Carla (2009)

One unnamed thegn, after the priest Coifi's speech in Book II, Chapter XIII, casts his lot in favor of conversion and uses the famous image of a sparrow flying through a mead hall: ❋ Carolingian (2006)

Edward was a surviving English thegn and sheriff of Wiltshire. ❋ Carla (2006)

Simon had no compunction in ousting what had been the thegn from his hut and appropriating his chair. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Mordred, beckoned forward by the King, received Cerdic's ceremonial kiss, then found himself riding between the Saxon king and a red-haired thegn who was a cousin of Cerdic's queen. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

He and his neighbour, with gestures and grins, managed to exchange names: the red-haired thegn was called Bruning. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

Then they rode thither—his ealdorman Osric and his thegn Wigfrith and the men he had left behind him—and discovered the atheling in the stronghold where the king lay slain—and they had locked the gates against them—and they went thither. ❋ Robert Brentano (1964)

Hadbardernes drot og hver thegn af det folk, når ban går med jomfruen i hallen, at en hirdsvend af Danerne skænked for skaren; ti på ham stråler fædrenes eje, hårdt og ringlagt, Hadbardernes klenodier, sålænge de ejede de våben (indtil de misted i skjoldelegen de kære fæller og deres eget liv). ❋ Oscar Ludvig Olson (N/A)

It is worth noting that in later times the heriot of an "ordinary thegn" (_medema þegn_) -- by which is meant apparently not a king's thegn but a man of the _twelfhynde_ class -- consisted of his horse with its saddle, &c. and his arms, or two pounds of silver as an equivalent of the whole. ❋ Various (N/A)

The thegn was expected to fight for his lord, and generally to place his services at his disposal in both war and peace. ❋ Various (N/A)

The jurisdictional rights of the king also passed to the lord, whether church or thegn; then came the danegeld, the tax for buying off the Danes that subsequently became a fixed land tax, which was collected from the lord, as the peasants were too poor for the State to deal with them; the lord paid the geld for their land, consequently their land was his. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Britain the old kindred groups of the English lost their corporate sense, and the central power being too weak to protect the ordinary householder, who could not stand alone, he had to seek the protection of an ecclesiastical corporation or of some thegn, first for himself and then for his land. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Among the attendant knights and nobles of King William's court was a Saxon knight known as Sir Ordgar, a ` ` thegn, '' * or baronet, of Oxfordshire; and because those who change their opinions -- political or otherwise -- often prove the most unrelenting enemies of their former associates, it came to pass that Sir Ordgar, the Saxon, conceived ❋ Unknown (1891)

'The present life of man, O king,' said a thegn, 'seems to me in comparison of that time which is unknown to us like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your ealdormen and thegns, and a good fire in the midst, and storms of rain and snow without .... ❋ Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1865)

When a district was being plundered the peasant holders of the strips of village land suffered most, and needed the protection of the neighbouring thegn, who was better skilled in war than themselves, and this protection they could only obtain on condition of becoming bondmen themselves -- that is to say, of giving certain days in the week to work on the special estate of the lord. ❋ Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1865)

The lord was almost invariably a thegn, either of the king or of some superior thegn, and there thus arose in England, as there arose about the same time on the Continent, a chain of personal relationships. ❋ Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1865)

The same motives which brought the freeman of the tenth century to commend himself to thegn or baron forced the yeoman or smaller gentleman of the fifteenth to don the cognizance of his powerful neighbour, and ask for a grant of ❋ John Richard Green (1860)