ANST - Huscarls; Imperium...

[John Ruble]

On Friday, June 12, 1998 9:32 PM, ALBAN at delphi.com 
[SMTP:ALBAN at delphi.com] wrote:
> Calontir. We have an AOA-level fighting order (not an award, an
> order), called the Fyrd; the GOA-level is the Hyrd (and a member's
> called a Huscarl). A Thegn is a precedence-bearing position, for
> personal
> advisers to the people wearing the Crowns. (But I think ?An Tir? might
> have a completely different order of Thegnhood.) It derives from a pre-
> Conquest Anglo-Saxon term (and I quote from the CD-ROM edition of
> the OED):
> "3. One who in Anglo-Saxon times held lands of the king or other
> superior by military service; originally in the fuller designation
> cyninges en, king's thane, military servant or attendant; in later 
times
> simply thegn, as a term of rank, including several grades below that of
> an ealdorman or eorl (earl n. 2) and above that of the ceorl or 
ordinary
> freeman.
> In this sense the name was superseded by baron and knight in the 12th
> c., and continued only in historical use, in which it was written thane
> in the 16th c. Recent historians have revived the OE. form as thegn."
>

In Ansteorra, Thegn is an alternate title for Baron.

-Ulf

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