Search results for "Anglo-Saxons" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ==Etymology== From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from ...1 KB (198 words) - 23:47, 25 June 2023
- held predominance over those of the Anglo-Saxons. Its origins lie in the Viking expansion of the ninth century. With the increase in population ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- It is estimated that the total amount of money paid by the Anglo-Saxons amounted to some sixty million pence. More Anglo-Saxon pence of this ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- The Peterborough Chronicle (also called the Laud Manuscript), one of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, contains unique information about the history ...16 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 24 November 2022
- ==Etymology== From Middle English emperour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman emperour and Old French empereor (Modern French empereur), from Latin imperātor ...2 KB (210 words) - 21:06, 30 January 2024
- ==Etymology== From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. ==Noun== region (plural regions) ...2 KB (224 words) - 20:33, 31 October 2023
- ==Etymology== From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (to pay ransom) (whence also English fine (to ...2 KB (197 words) - 15:04, 28 June 2023
- The first, second, and third Anglo-Maratha wars were fought between the army of the British East India Company, which after 1757 was de facto ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies to the northwest of Continental Europe, with Ireland to the west, and makes ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 19:28, 24 May 2024
- ==Etymology== From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical ...2 KB (260 words) - 19:46, 31 July 2023
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- ==Etymology== From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (propriety ...2 KB (295 words) - 19:17, 20 September 2023
- ==Etymology== From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin generālis ...2 KB (304 words) - 23:54, 3 July 2023
- ==Etymology== From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (enclosure, yard) ...2 KB (301 words) - 15:50, 1 June 2024
- Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was a unique American poet. Lanier was considered a minor poet in his own times, and although ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- ==Etymology== From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, from Old French coustume, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen or ...2 KB (300 words) - 19:58, 31 July 2023
- L.P. Curtis, Jr., Anglo-Saxons and Celts - A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice ... * Curtis, L.P. Jr. Anglo-Saxons and Celts - A Study of Anti-Irish ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie) (1028 – September 9, 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- ==Etymology== Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from ...2 KB (334 words) - 21:17, 30 November 2023
- ==Etymology== From Middle English dauncen, daunsen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman dauncer, dancer (to dance) (compare Old French dancier), from ...2 KB (337 words) - 18:56, 25 August 2023
