Thane (Scotland)

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Thane (/ˈθeɪn/; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn)^[1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl,^[2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.