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hors-þegn

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

      16.
  • v. Kemble's Saxons in England ii.
      107-8.
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