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    An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is a dictionary of Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon). Four editions of the dictionary were published. It has often (especially...
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  • Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and...
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    The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until...
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    The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins...
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  • termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it appears in an 8th-century...
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    Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from...
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    Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, or Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, refers to the...
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    Anglo-Saxon dress refers to the clothing and accessories worn by the Anglo-Saxons from the middle of the second century to the eleventh century. Archaeological...
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  • Look up Anglo-Saxon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes that settled in Britain and founded England. Anglo-Saxon may also...
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    In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or WASP is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern...
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    Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest...
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    Anglo-Saxon law (Old English ǣ, later lagu "law"; dōm "decree, judgment") is a body of written rules and customs that were in place during the Anglo-Saxon...
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    Anglo-Saxon missionaries were instrumental in the spread of Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century, continuing the work of Hiberno-Scottish...
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    In the seventh century the pagan Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity (Old English: Crīstendōm) mainly by missionaries sent from Rome. Irish missionaries...
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  • The following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066)...
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  • Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (4th ed.). University of Toronto Press. p. 365. Bosworth, Joseph; Bosworth Northcote, T. (2018). "smúgan". An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary...
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    The Anglo-Saxon lyre, also known as the Germanic lyre or the Viking lyre, is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in Anglo-Saxon England...
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  • "gríma". An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Online). Prague: Charles University. Clark Hall, J. R. (2002) [1894]. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (4th ed.)...
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    Period spear Seax of Beagnoth Bosworth, Joseph, D.D., F.R.S. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 July...
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    J. & Toller, T. Northcote (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. "Old English / Anglo-Saxon (Englisc)". Omniglot (omniglot.com)...
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  • Joseph Bosworth (category Anglo-Saxon studies scholars)
    (1788 – 27 May 1876) was an English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language and compiler of the first major Anglo-Saxon dictionary. Born in Derbyshire in 1788...
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    Canada). As early as 1897, Albert Venn Dicey proposed an Anglo-Saxon "intercitizenship" during an address to the Fellows of All Souls at Oxford. The American...
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  • The Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was a process spanning the 7th century. It was essentially the result of the Gregorian mission of 597, which...
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  • helmet". Bosworth, Joseph; Northcote, T. (1921). "Eoh: war-horse". An Anglo-Saxon dictionary, based on the manuscript collections of the late Joseph Bosworth...
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    thegns who acted as personal attendants of kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal feasts played an important role in consolidating community and hierarchy...
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    post maul. Spike maul An Anglo Saxon Dictionary, Joseph Bosworth, The Clarendon press, 1882 "Slag". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 27 June 2012...
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  • Frith (category Anglo-Saxon law)
    Fridstoll Grith Oxford English Dictionary "FRIÞ". Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (on-line edition of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary). Jurasinski, Stefan (2004)...
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    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle...
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  • Angles (tribe) Anglo-Burmese people Anglo-Celtic Anglo-Indian Anglo-Irish people Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon (disambiguation) Anglo-Saxons Anglo-Scottish border...
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    proposal at a later date. The editors of Bosworth's monumental dictionary of Anglo-Saxon propose that Beowulf is a variant of beado-wulf meaning "war wolf"...
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