What is "thegns"

Usage examples of "thegns".

Still, it was only a few moments before all the machicolations were open and Alengwyned and his thegns could look straight down at the combatants on the parapet, and could likewise observe the stairs inside the tower, by which their compeers were still tramping up to join them.

He had created thegnships for his white Welshmen and given his thegns the power of life and death over the natives in the provinces.

Between the vassals and their prince there stood no barons, no thegns, no ministers, no magistrates, no channel for handing down authority.

Euchee interpreters and hand-signing, Madoc and his thegns were led up through the city to a vast plaza, wherein stood one pyramid the size of a hill, and lesser ones twenty or thirty feet high.

There are too many unhappy spirits in this valley who have been made that way by the thegns of Alengwyned.

Those men were his thegns, because they had little of the blood of the True People in them, but mostly the blood of those who had come two hundred summers ago from beyond the Sunrise Water.

He looked around at his thegns and bodyguards, seeing to it that they were smirking, too.

While this slaughter was being finished, the king was led by two thegns to his throne.

But once he had seen it, once he had seen his towns ablaze on both riverbanks and heard the screams of dying townspeople, and realized that such an outrageous thing actually was happening, he had hurried to his armory in a red rage, summoning his thegns and bodyguards as he went.

These machic-o lations had been built in the time of kings who had still known the science of fortification, which Alengwyned and his thegns knew not.

Other thegns of the king were running about and yelling, mere shapes in the pall of smoke that poured from the brazier and rose from the burning roofs of the castle buildings below.

Alengwyned, his thegns, archers, everyone on the tower, breathed searing heat.

And Sweetgrass Smoke, the daughter of an esteemed artisan of the castle, had been used like a slave by useless, brutal thegns who were only one step above him in the order of tilings.

Room of the Bundles with these same leather-covered things on his knees, his eyes closed while some of his thegns talked to him.