thegn

American

[thayn] / θeɪn /

noun

thane.

thegn British

/ θeɪn /

noun

a variant spelling of thane

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Etymology

Origin of thegn

1840–50; < Old English: thane

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thegn

To William Zeckendorf Jr., 28, son and vice president to the thegn of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real estate firm, and Gurie Lie Zeckendorf, 28, daughter of former U.N.

From Time Magazine Archive

He himself, with only one trusty thegn, whose name was Tondhere, withdrew and lay concealed in the house of Hunwald, a noble,362 whom he imagined to be his most assured friend.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede

Would that thegn and coerl were filled with thy spirit, and the Dane would no longer uprear his raven standard in the land.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

Methinks that we could find some thegn to take us under his mund.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

Burh I can understand; authorities abound for its use as expressing the manoir of the Anglo-Saxon thegn.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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