THEGNS
- THEGN, a king's companion in Anglo-Saxon England, also THANE [n]
- THEGN, thane (a man holding land by military service in Anglo-Saxon England) [n]
- member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service
- person, ranking with an earl's son, holding lands of the king; the chief of a clan, who became one of the king's barons
- thane 1