10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEST SAXON»
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West Saxon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
West Saxon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Royal Saints of Anglo-
Saxon England: A Study of
West ...
Within Anglo-Saxon England there was a strong and enduring tradition of royal sanctity - of men and women of royal birth who, in an age before the development of papal canonisation, came to be venerated as saints by the regional church.
Susan Janet Ridyard, 1988
2
An Elementary Old English Grammar (early
West Saxon) ...
It is not the direct parent, but rather, as it were, the uncle, of Modern English, in
tracing the ancestry of which through West Saxon we therefore deflect from the
straight line of descent. But this disadvantage is compensated by the ampleness
of ...
This dialect was used not only by West Saxon scribes and authors of that period
but also by their contemporaries from other dialect areas, and the scribes
employed it even when they were copying much earlier Old English texts, such
as the ...
Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge, 2007
4
Alfred the
West Saxon: King of English
King of English Dugald Macfadyen. appears in the laws of Edgar as the name of
an English institution, has its origin far back in the remotest German antiquity, but
the use of it as a geographical expression is discoverable only in comparatively ...
5
Diagrams Illustrating Some
West Saxon Sound-Changes
DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING SOME WEST SAXON SOUND—CI-IANGES by
FORREST S. SCOTT - INTRODUCTION THESE diagrams illustrate the principal
sound-changes affecting Old English vowels. The major developments of each of
the ...
6
On Early English Pronunciation: Existing dialectal as ...
Hwiccas, a West Saxon tribe, settled in Gl. along the R. Severn. Wilsatan, also a
West Saxon tribe, were in Wl. Geicissas, another West Saxon tribe, settled in the
Isle of Wi. and Ha. Middle Saxons occupied Mi. East Saxons were in Es. and Ht.
Alexander John Ellis, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, 1889
7
The charters of the early
West Saxon kingdom
This study of West Saxon charters includes all those that may be dated before 839, the end of the reign of Ecgberht.
8
Learning and Literature in Anglo-
Saxon England: Studies ...
960) but are regularly removed from copies of ninth-century works made in the
latter part of the Anglo-Saxon period.12 Thus, /V-spellings corresponding to early
West Saxon "ie are found 1 x in hand 1 and 2 x in hand 2 in hiera, niehst-, and ...
Michael Lapidge, Helmut Gneuss, 1985
9
The Anglo-
Saxon chronicle: a collaborative edition
West Saxon e The spelling e is normally retained. As with the first scribe,
occasional instances of ce and of eo occur. The ce spellings may reflect Kentish
or Mercian provenance or the falling together of [e:] and [ae:]: hcer (beside her(e)
4x); ...
D. N. Dumville, Susan Irvine, Simon Keynes, 2004
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Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-
Saxon England
references to West Saxon history in sources that were produced outside Wessex,
and it is when we have the opportunity to correlate different accounts that we are
most likely to reach a rounded view of West Saxon history. Bede's information is ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEST SAXON»
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West Saxon is used in the context of the following news items.
The awkward jigsaw of England's boundaries
Alfred was responsible for spreading the West Saxon style of administration, dividing areas up into "shires" or shares of land, each shire with a nominated ... «BBC News, Nov 14»
A Saxon War Story
The Vikings killed or drove out the native kings and set up puppet rulers, then turned their attention to the one surviving kingdom, Wessex, or West Saxon, in the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 10»
