Definition of Danelagh

1. Danish law that prevailed in England [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Danelagh

dandyishly
dandyism
dandyisms
dandyize
dandyized
dandyizes
dandyizing
dandyling
dandylings
dane
dane particle
danegeld
danegelds
danegelt
danegelts
danelagh (current term)
danelaghs
danelaw
danelaws
daneweed
daneweeds
danewort
daneworts
dang
dang it
dang tootin'
dang tooting
dangdut
danged
danger

Literary usage of Danelagh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"1 Within this danelagh, which embraced more than one half of the empire of ... within the danelagh, the name applied to the region in which Danish law ..."

2. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"The customary law that grew up within the danelagh, the name applied to 1 As to the conquest of Northumbria, the first to yield, see Robertson, ..."

3. A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria by Benjamin Stites Terry (1908)
"CHAPTER V THE RECONQUEST OF THE danelagh AND THE EXPANSION OF THE ENGLISH ... The danelagh must be conquered and made a part of the West Saxon kingdom. ..."

4. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1864)
"The danelagh was filled with a new population, who had dispossessed a great portion of the original inhabitants. The names of places, as is well known, ..."

5. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1864)
"The danelagh was filled with a new population, who had dispossessed a great portion of the original inhabitants. The names of places, as is well known, ..."

6. The Making of the English Nation (B.C. 55-1135 A.D.) by Charles Grant Robertson (1896)
"THE RECOVERY OF THE danelagh, 901-955. Edward, the son of Alfred who became king of Wessex in 901, had not inherited his father's many-sided ability. ..."

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