1. After he repudiated her, she married a northern thegn Kilvert. 2. About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn . 3. A thegn was a class of retainer in Scandinavia. 4. Before the Norman conquest, the area was controlled by the Anglo-Saxon thegn Aelfward. 5. A less privileged type is the king's thegn who was without any such representative. 6. In 770 Uhtred of Hwicce issued a charter to his thegn �thelmund Later, between 793 and 796. 7. In the next generation, Wulfnoth Cild, Thegn of Sussex, played a prominent part in English politics. 8. It lies 3 miles south-east of king's thegn Godwin to Eudo Dapifer at the Conquest. 9. He excommunicated a thegn who was in an unlawful marriage and forbade Christians to accept the man's hospitality. 10. The manor then passed to a Danish thegn of King Edward called Tovi, who bequeathed it to Abingdon Abbey.
