of or relating to Wessex, the kingdom of the West Saxons
West Saxon dialect of Old English
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WestSaxon is the term applied to the two different dialects Early WestSaxon and Late WestSaxon with WestSaxon being one of the four distinct regional...
The Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North...
associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, and WestSaxon. It was WestSaxon that formed the basis for the literary...
Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West Central German dialects Saxon (disambiguation)...
Mercian; Kentish; and WestSaxon, leading to the speculation that much of the poetry may have been translated into WestSaxon at a later date. An example...
Low Saxon (Dutch: Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German (German: Westniederdeutsch) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands...
paraphrase Judith, is preserved in WestSaxon dialect, though not all of it was originally written in WestSaxon. In the medieval period Sumer is icumen...
Mercian, Northumbrian (known collectively as the Anglian dialects), and WestSaxon. The dialect was spoken in what are now the modern-day Counties of Kent...
A fyrd was a type of early Anglo-Saxon army that was mobilised from freemen or paid men to defend their Shire's lords estate, or from selected representatives...
hold an intermediate position. Beowulf is written mostly in the Late WestSaxon dialect of Old English, but many other dialectal forms are present, suggesting...
portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as taking place in 571 between Britons and someone called Cuthwulf (normally assumed to be a WestSaxon). The annal describing...
kingdom of Northumbria. The Anglo-Saxon king Edwin of Northumbria was baptized there in 627 and the first Anglo-Saxon archbishop Ecgbert of York consecrated...
portrayed by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an important military encounter between the WestSaxons and the Britons in the West Country in 577. The Chronicle...
of the East Saxon diocese of London, indicating that it was under East Saxon rule at that time, but was later transferred to the WestSaxon diocese of...
Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until they...
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