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West Saxon   /wɛst sˈæksən/   Listen
West Saxon

noun
1.
An inhabitant of Wessex.
2.
A literary dialect of Old English.
3.
A dialect of Middle English.  Synonym: Southwestern.





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"West Saxon" Quotes from Famous Books



... get so firm a footing in the land. Our only hope now lies in the West Saxons. Until lately they were at feud with Mercia; but the royal families are now related by marriage, seeing that the King of Mercia is wedded to a West Saxon princess, and that Alfred, the West Saxon king's brother and heir to the throne, has lately espoused one of the royal blood of Mercia. The fact that they marched at the call of the King of Mercia and drove the Danes from Nottingham shows that the West Saxon princes are alive to the common ...
— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty


Words linked to "West Saxon" :   southwestern, Saxon, Middle English, Old English, Anglo-Saxon


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