Hors-þegn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hors-þegn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hors-þegn
m. I. a groom: -- Horsþén agaso, Ælfc. Gl. 20; Som. 59, 42; Wrt. Voc. 23, 5: mulio, Hpt. Gl. 438: Gl. Mett. 516. II. the title of an officer of the royal household [cf. mare-scalcus among the Franks] :-- Ecgulf cynges horsþegn, Wulfríc cynges horsþegn. Chr. 897; Erl. 95, 5: 96, 16.

Related words: Kemble's Saxons in England ii. 107-8. hors-þegn

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