medema

It is worth noting that in later times the heriot of an "ordinary thegn" (_medema þegn_) -- by which is meant apparently not a king's thegn but a man of the _twelfhynde_ class -- consisted of his horse with its saddle, &c. and his arms, or two pounds of silver as an equivalent of the whole.

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