English Dictionary

thane

IPA（発音記号）

/θeɪn/

名詞

歴史的

(historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.

日本語の意味

前ノルマン時代のイングランドにおいて、男爵に類する貴族の階級。

The old thane rode through the village to attend the earl's court, his chain of office glinting in the sun.

年老いた領主（バロンに相当）は、役職の飾りの鎖を太陽にきらめかせながら、伯爵のもとへ出席するため村を馬で通り過ぎた。

意味（1）

(historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.

The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons. The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.

thanes （ plural ）