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The babble and the mirth ceased at his entrance; each voice was stilled, each eye cast down demurely. Edith was not amongst them, and in answer to his inquiry the eldest of the maidens pointed towards the peristyle without the house. The winning and kindly thegn paused a few moments, to admire the tissue and commend the work, and then sought the peristyle.
With the dawn I depart to our port at Sandwich , to muster our fleets. Thou with me, Gurth." "These preparations need much treasure," said an old thegn, "and thou hast lessened the taxes at the hour of need." "Not yet is it the hour of need. When it comes, our people will the more readily meet it with their gold as with their iron.
"And meanwhile, the troops " "Will wait on either side; and if reason fail, then the sword," said Siward. "The troops desert! half the ranks have thrown down their arms at the very name of Harold!" exclaimed the Earl of Hereford. "Curses on the knaves!" "And the lithsmen of London," cried a Saxon thegn, "are all on his side, and marching already through the gates."
The principle of personal dependence as distinguished from the warrior's general duty to the folk at large was embodied in the thegn. "Chieftains fight for victory," says Tacitus; "comrades for their chieftain."
Even to this day patches of such land, in the neighbourhood of Norwood, may betray what the country was in the old time: when a mighty forest, "abounding with wild beasts" "the bull and the boar" skirted the suburbs of London, and afforded pastime to king and thegn. For the Norman kings have been maligned by the popular notion that assigns to them all the odium of the forest laws.
While, since thegn and thane are both archaisms, I prefer the former; not only for the same reason that induces Sir Francis Palgrave to prefer it, viz., because it is the more etymologically correct; but because we take from our neighbours the Scotch, not only the word thane, but the sense in which we apply it; and that sense is not the same that we ought to attach to the various and complicated notions of nobility which the Anglo-Saxon comprehended in the title of thegn.
Not a moment did the Earl lose in proclaiming the Herr-bann; sheaves of arrows were splintered, and the fragments, as announcing the War-Fyrd, were sent from thegn to thegn, and town to town.
There were to be seen camararius and pincerna, chamberlain and cupbearer; disc thegn and hors thegn ; the thegn of the dishes, and the thegn of the stud; with many more, whose state offices may not impossibly have been borrowed from the ceremonial pomp of the Byzantine court; for Edgar, King of England, had in the old time styled himself the Heir of Constantine.
Dark was the scowl on the brow of every thegn, and a muttered "No, no: never the Norman!" was heard distinctly. Harold's face flushed, and his hand was on the hilt of his ateghar. But no other sign gave he of his interest in the question. The King lay for some moments silent, but evidently striving to re-collect his thoughts.
Not even one Welchman have we found who hath ever himself gained the summit, or examined the castle which is said to exist there." "Said!" echoed De Graville, who, relieved of his mail, and with his wounds bandaged, reclined on his furs on the floor. "Said, noble sir! Cannot our eyes perceive the towers?" The old thegn shook his head.
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