Mercian was a dialect spoken in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia (roughly speaking the Midlands of England, an area in which four kingdoms had been united...

scholars who have studied and promoted the Mercian dialect of Old English and introduced various Mercian terms into his legendarium – especially in relation...

and historian Mercian Brigade, an historic unit in the British Army Mercian Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer Mercian dialect, a dialect of Old English...

Anglo-Saxon tradition, poetry, and linguistics, specifically in its Mercian dialect, in everything but its use of horses. Tolkien used Old English for...

tongue [...] the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the...

Saruman (pronounced [ˈsɑrumɑn]) means "man of skill or cunning" in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon; he serves as an example of technology and modernity...

Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of...

Mercians were prominent at the courts of Alfred and Edward, and the Mercian dialect and scholarship commanded West Saxon respect. It is uncertain how far...

The three others were Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian (the latter two were similar and are known as the Anglian dialects). West Saxon was the language...

conquest. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, and West Saxon. It was...

southwest. All of these dialects have direct descendants in modern England. Standard English developed from the Mercian dialect, as it was predominant...

Anglian dialect underlying the West Saxon translation of the texts. Any definite conclusion to Cynewulf being either Northumbrian or Mercian has been...

the Ormulum, Havelock the Dane, and Thomas of Hales's Love Rune. The Mercian dialect thrived between the 8th and 13th centuries and was referred to by John...

normally took place only in the Mercian subdialect of the Anglian dialect. Standard ealu "ale" is a borrowing from Mercian. Similar borrowings are poetic...

were actually the Anglo-Saxons, though he had made them speak the Mercian dialect of that language. In a book, Drout states, there can be ambiguity about...

is offered. The name Saruman means "man of skill or cunning" in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon; he serves as an example of technology and modernity...

the river is Mercian in origin, with origins in the East Midlands dialects, whilst that to the northeast, like Geordie, the Cumbrian dialect and the Scots...

southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian...

led to the English spoken nearby, which was largely derived from the Mercian dialect of Old English, to become the standard written form, rather than that...

English derives from the Old English Mercian dialects, the West Country dialects derive from the West Saxon dialect, which formed the earliest English language...

rendering: Rohirric, the language of Rohan (related to Westron) by the Mercian dialect of Old English names in the tongue of Dale by Old Norse forms names...

preserved in the Nowell Codex. The original translation was in the Mercian dialect, but the surviving version is West Saxon. A separate Middle English...

Midlands pronunciation The Eastern Midlands dialect of ME results from a mixture of the OE Mercian dialect and the ON of the Danelaw, with an overlay of...

Skinner). Problems playing this file? See media help. The Black Country dialect is spoken by many people in the Black Country, a region covering most of...

Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv). It is written in Late West Saxon in a Mercian dialect. Other than Beowulf and The Wonders of the East, the other works in...

existence of a separate Old East Anglian dialect, in addition to the recognised dialects of Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon and Kentish. He acknowledged...

of the Riders of Rohan, Rohirric, to be "translated" again as the Mercian dialect of Old English which he knew well. This set up a relationship something...

anchoresses’ primary purpose was to pray, seeking complete union with God. Mercian dialect Tolkien 1929 Michelle M. Sauer, 'Wooing Group', in: Encyclopedia of...

Psalter (~850–875) is an interlinear gloss of the Book of Psalms in the Mercian dialect. Eleven other Anglo-Saxon (and two later) psalters with Old English...

gloss in Old English, which probably derives from an exemplar in the Mercian dialect. Cockayne, O. (ed.). 1864–66. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft...