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автор оригинала Katherine Kinn
Что это за sword-thain такой? В словарях современного английского слова thain нет.
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В этом контексте следует заметить, что в Шире, обычно из семьи Туков, также избирался так называемый Thain:
"and then the Hobbits took the land for their own, and they chose from their own chiefs a Thain to hold the authority of the king that was gone."
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"The Hobbits named it the Shire, as the region of the authority of their Thain, and a district of well-ordered business"
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"It is true that the Took family had long been pre-eminent; for the office of Thain had passed to them (from the Oldbucks) some centuries before, and the chief Took had borne that title ever since. The Thain was the master of the Shire-moot, and captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms, but as muster and moot were only held in times of emergency, which no longer occurred, the Thainship had ceased to be more than a nominal dignity."
Следует также обратить внимание на связь между "графством" (Шир) и авторитетом "thain'а" заведовать этим графством.