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Atheling :: Atheling (n.) An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family..

Archmarshal :: Archmarshal (n.) The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony..

Mancus :: Mancus (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or Old) Saxon..

Kieserite :: Kieserite (n.) Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony..

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

Saxon :: Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe..

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

Saxon :: Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language..

Stronghand :: Strong (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular..

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries..

Earthdrake :: Earthdrake (n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Moot-hill :: Moot-hill (n.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill..

Kainite :: Kainite (n.) A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony..

Edh :: Edh (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

Q :: Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from th

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