Wigþegn

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

wīġ (“battle”) +‎ þeġn (“servant”)

Proper noun

Wīġþeġn m

  1. a male given name
    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
      An. DCCCXXXIII Hēr ġefeaht Eċġbriht cing wið XXXV sċiphlæsta æt Carrum ⁊ þǣr wearð myċel wæl ġesleġen, ⁊ þā Denisċan ahton wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ Hereferð ⁊ Wīġþeġn, tweġen bisċeopas, forðferdan, ⁊ Duda ⁊ Ōsmōd, tweġen ealdormenn, forðferdon.
      Year 833 In this year King Edgebright fought against thirty-five shiploads of men at Charmouth, and many were slain, and the Danes took control of the battlefield. And two bishops, Herefrith and Wigthane, and two aldermen, Duda and Osmod, died.
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