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From this primitive rostrum King Edwin may have harangued his thegns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The benches where the thegns sat were probably arranged like a grandstand, the highest ones in the rear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some passed into the hands of great thegns near to them; the bulk became known as in the demesne of the king.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard
When the lord became a tribal chief or king, the royal vassals became the king's thegns, or represented the nobility of the realm.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
The fyrd was gradually superseded by the gathering of the thegns and their retainers, but it was occasionally called out for defensive purposes even after the Norman Conquest.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
