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thegn Hist. (θeɪn) A form used by some recent historians to represent the OE. þeᵹn (þeᵹen, þén), thane1, in its sense of tenant by military service, and as a term of rank below the ealdorman or eorl and above the ceorl, corresponding in its various grades to the post-conquest baron and knight. The p...
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Thegn
The nobility of pre-conquest England was ranked according to the heriot paid in the following order: earl, king's thegn, median thegn. A "median thegn" did not hold land directly from the king, but through an intermediary lord.
Status
The thegn was of higher status than the .
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Morcar (thegn)
Morcar was a king's thegn (Latin minister) in 1009 when King Æthelred the Unready issued a charter, in which he gave lands to his minister Morcar.
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Geþyncðo
The text goes on to distinguish between four different types of thegn and their qualifications: at the top stood the thegn who rode in the king's household On the next level is the median thegn, who likewise held five hides of his own, but served a king's thegn, attended him in the king's hall and was qualified
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Fotr
Fotr may refer to:
Fot (), runemaster who flourished in mid-11th century Sweden
Fótr, the thegn memorialized by the Norra Härene Runestone
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Wihtgar Ælfricsson
Wihtgar Ælfricsson (fl. 1042-71) was an Anglo-Saxon thegn who lived in East Anglia in the mid-eleventh century at the time of the Norman Conquest. He was the son of Ælfric Modercope, an Anglo-Norse thegn connected with the last Danish and Anglo-Saxon courts of England.
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Västergötland Runic Inscription 73
The stone was raised in memory of a man who was a thegn. About fifty other runestones refer to the deceased being a thegn.
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Västra Nöbbelöv Runestone
The text describes the deceased man Auðgi as being "a very good thegn" or "þegn," with the runes for thegn no longer readable on the stone. About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn.
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Northman
term for a Scandinavian or viking c.800 to c.1100
Northman of Escomb (fl. 994), a Northumbrian earl
Northman, son of Leofwine (died 1017), Mercian thegn
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Västergötland Runic Inscription 8
A thegn was a class of retainer, and about fifty memorial runestones in Denmark and Sweden mention that the deceased was a thegn. raised this stone in memory of Geirmundr, his brother, a good thegn. May God help.
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Vastergotland Runic Inscription 008
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Asferg Runestone
The text describes the deceased man Múli as being "a very good thegn" or "þegn". About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn.
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Norra Härene Runestone
The runic text describes the deceased man Fótr as being "a very good thegn." About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn.
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Gunderup Runestone
The text also describes the father as being þægn goþan or "a good thegn," a phrase that is also used on two Swedish runestones, Vg 8 from Hjälstads and A thegn was a class of retainer, and about fifty memorial runestones in Denmark and Sweden mention that the deceased was a thegn.
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Rydsgård Runestone
Similar to the Velanda Runestone, the inscription describes the deceased as being a good þegn, or thegn. It is thought that thegn-stones point to areas where they came from.
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