Meanings (ES + gloss)
thane
A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.
The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons. The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Angl…
The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
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