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Danelaw
[ deyn-law ]
noun
- the body of laws in force in the northeast of England where the Danes settled in the 9th century a.d.
- the part of England under this law.
Danelaw
/ ˈdeɪnˌlɔː /
noun
- the northern, central and eastern parts of Anglo-Saxon England in which Danish law and custom were observed
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Danelaw1
Old English Dena lagu Danes' law; term revived in the 19th century
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Example Sentences
But also we have hardly a single land-book of early date which deals with any part of the territory that became the Danelaw.
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No, for the Danelaw, under this treaty, included all Cambridgeshire and other hidated districts.
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It was not till 910 that a fresh rising of the northmen forced lfred's children to gird themselves to the conquest of the Danelaw.
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From the first moment of his settlement in the Danelaw the northman had been passing into an Englishman.
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Two generations later they had destroyed three of the four English kingdoms and were organising the Danelaw on their ruins.
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