thane

thane englannista suomeksi

1. heimopäällikkö, taani

2. kruununvasalli

0. Substantiivi

thane englanniksi

1. A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron."http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6ZsRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA594&dq=%22There+were+two+orders,+the+king%27s+thanes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=26ygUYzWFOyXiAfssoHACw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22There%20were%20two%20orders%2C%20the%20king's%20thanes%22&f=false thane", entry in 1852, ''Putnam's Home Cyclopedia: Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts'', p594 — The thanes in England were formerly persons of some dignity; there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits.(..)After the Norman Conquest, this title was disused, and ''baron'' took its place.

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1845|translator=Benjamin Thorpe|author=Johann Martin Lappenberg|title=A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dOQA3Y6q2WsC&pg=PA317&dq=%22Thane%22%7C%22thanes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dbSgUa-BOcmziQf6_IGgDQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22Thane%22%7C%22thanes%22&f=false|page=317|year_published=2004

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1910|author=Robert A. Thompson|title=The People's History of England|publisher=Walter Scott Publishing|location=New York

4. 2000, (died 1023)|Wulfstan, Robert Boenig (editor and translator), ''Lupi ad Anglos|Sermo Lupi ad Anglos'', ''Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings'', page 144,

Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane and serf, if the serf utterly kills the thane, he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.

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