Hand-þegen

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hand-þegen

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hand-þegen
m. An attendant, one of a retinue, servant :-- Ðá hé ðá ðyder férde ðá wǽron his handþegnas twegen when he journeyed thither, two of his attendants were with him, Guthl. 14; Gdwin. 62, 3. Willfriþ his preóst and his hond-þeng Wilfrid his priest and attendant; clericus illius, Bd. 5, 19; S. 638, 27: Cd. 224; Th. 295, 12; Sat. 485. [Cf. hand-gesella, -preóst.] hand-þegen
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