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Meanings of thanes in English
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Usage of thanes in English
1
You have journeyed far and returned our valued thanes, free from harm.
2
Yet the thanes said that without the king no force would move.
3
One ship bore the thanes and their attendants from Southampton to Rouen.
4
Afterwards came Cador, the Earl of Cornwall, with seventeen thousand good thanes.
5
Arthur then called to his dear knights: 'Advance we quickly, brave thanes!
6
The thanes-freeholdersmostly, men who were neither entirely noble nor completely common .
7
His companions did the same, the thanes first and then the two lads.
8
Ho had told the thanes, and they were arming in silence.
9
He had in the middle knights well beseen, other seven thousand good thanes.
10
See here, thanes; here is Heregar, whom we outlawed but the other day.
11
Harold accepted the invitation, and with his thanes set out with the duke.
12
Harold and his brothers and all the leading thanes lie dead.
13
If there was any plot, these three honest thanes were not in it.
14
This monster, Grendel, came from the moors and devoured thirty of the thanes.
15
The stout band of thanes rejoiced that their lord had returned.
16
The heroic old king, accompanied by a party of thanes, attacks the dragon.
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