Danelaw

[ deyn-law ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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 /

the northern, central and eastern parts of Anglo-Saxon England in which Danish law and custom were observed

Origin of Danelaw¹

before 1050; Middle English Dane-lawe, earlier Dene-lawe, Old English Dena lagu. See Dane, law ¹

Origin of Danelaw¹

Old English Dena lagu Danes' law; term revived in the 19th century

But also we have hardly a single land-book of early date which deals with any part of the territory that became the Danelaw.

No, for the Danelaw, under this treaty, included all Cambridgeshire and other hidated districts.

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.

From the first moment of his settlement in the Danelaw the northman had been passing into an Englishman.

Two generations later they had destroyed three of the four English kingdoms and were organising the Danelaw on their ruins.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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