West Saxon

noun

the Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant after a.d. c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.
any of the English of the period before the Norman Conquest who lived in the region south of the Thames and west of Surrey and Sussex.
a person whose native tongue was West Saxon.

West Saxon

See Kentish, Anglian
the dialect of Old English spoken in Wessex: the chief literary dialect of Old English See also Anglian Kentish
an inhabitant of Wessex

1350–1400; Middle English, for Old English Westseaxan Wessex; west, Saxon

The West Saxon shilling seems originally to have been identical with the Mercian, but later it contained five pence.

Hence we have in some quite early (not West Saxon) pedigrees, five names given as ancestors of Woden.

Besides, there is the strongest external support for Woden in the very place which he occupies in the West-Saxon pedigree.

They are pre-literary, and were doubtless chanted by retainers of the West-Saxon kings in heathen days.

The division of the West Saxon see was put off until the death of the bishop.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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