- In
later Anglo-Saxon England, a
thegn or
thane (Latin minister) was an
aristocrat who
ranked at the
third level in lay society,
below the king and ealdormen...
-
major beneficiary,
along with
Burton Abbey and Ælfhelm.
Morcar was a king's
thegn (Latin minister) in 1009 when King Æthelred the
Unready issued a charter...
- "a
common person". Says Chadwick: we find that the
distinction between thegn and
ceorl is from the time of
Aethelstan the
broad line of
demarcation between...
- (often
called seneschals by historians) and
butlers (or cup-bearers) were
thegns who
acted as
personal attendants of
kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...
- Tofi pruda), fl. 1018–1043, was a rich and
powerful 11th-century
Danish thegn who held a
number of
estates in
various parts of
southern England. A translation...
-
Thane of
Cawdor is a
title in the
Scottish nobility,
allotted to the thane, or lord, of the
village of Cawdor. The
current 7th Earl Cawdor, of Clan Campbell...
- as
being "a very good
thegn" or "
þegn," with the
runes þikn for "
thegn"
emphasized by
their central placement. The term
thegn was used in the late Viking...
- in
Sweden (U 990) from the
eleventh century: Veðr Weðr Weðr ok ok ok
Þegn Þegn Þegn ok ok ok
Gunnarr Gunnarr Gunnarr reistu ræistu
raistu stein stæin stain...
- The
Tragedy of Macbeth,
often shortened to
Macbeth (/məkˈbɛθ/), is a
tragedy by
William Shakespeare,
estimated to have been
first performed in 1606. It...
- In the Old
English epic poem Beowulf,
Unferth or
Hunferth is a
thegn (a retainer, servant) of the
Danish lord Hrothgar. He
appears five
times in the poem...
