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	West Country dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The West Country dialects, or West Country accents, are generic terms applied to any of several English dialects or accents used by much of the indigenous population of the south western part of England, the area popularly known as the West Country.
		This is the region centred on the traditional counties of Devon (Devun), Cornwall (Corrnwahll) and Somerset (Zummerzet), amd to a lesser extent on Wiltshire, parts of Gloucestershire (Glahstershire), Oxfordshire (Ahxforrdshire) and Dorset (Darrzut); the eastern and north eastern boundaries of the West Country are disputed.
		The West Country dialects derive not from a corrupted form of modern English, but reflect the historical origins of the English language and its historical pronunciation, in particular Late West Saxon, which formed one of the earliest English language standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Country_Accent (1695 words)

	:: The Forum :: Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Late Saxon ribbon development is well attested from many of the other main arteries out of the town, including King Street leading to the south.
		Middle Saxon) pottery found in a residual state in later layers, there was not as much as was found on other sites in the city centre.
		Taken together, it is unlikely that two gold working related finds from the late 9th to 11th centuries would be brought in from elsewhere and redeposited in two separate features that themselves are separated by 500 years.
	www.theforumnorwich.co.uk /theforum/photogallery/site_history_prenorman.php (546 words)

	The 5th Century Anglo-Saxon Invasion of England
		The Saxons came from the coast between the Elbe and the Weser valleys and the Jutes resided north of the Angles in Danish Juteland or in Holstein.
		It was not until late in the sixth century that kings of Wessex combined with the Thames Valley Saxons and were operating in that area.
		In the west and north where native culture was less affected by the Romans, the Celtic language and culture was retained long after they became a part of the Germanic kingdoms.
	members.aol.com /bakken1/angsax/asinv.htm (6472 words)

	Germanic Languages
		From there the West and East Goths migrated to southern Gaul, Iberia, and Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries C. The Gepids were overcome by the Lombards and Avars in the fifth century and disappeared.
		The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland.
		West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands.
	softrat.home.mindspring.com /germanic.html (3010 words)

	Vortigern in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Text & Translation
		This is the oldest surviving MS of the Chronicle and the only one in which the dialect was not updated into Late West Saxon.
		From the Old Saxons came the East Saxons, the South Saxons, and the West Saxons.
		From Angeln, which afterwards stood deserted between the Jutes and Saxons, came the East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians, and all the Northumbrians.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/vorttxt.htm (1076 words)

	Introduction to the Old English poem called BEOWULF
		The Beowulf MS was written down circa 1000CE by two scribes in late West Saxon (the literary and posh dialect of the period).
		The language of the poem is predominantly (late) West Saxon, with a significant amount of Northumbrian and Mercian characteristics and forms, with some signs of Kentish influence as well--fairly well covering the entire Anglo-Saxon dialectic map.
		The overwhelming late West Saxon nature of the language could, in theory, indicate an equally late date for the composition of the poem itself, as Kiernan suggests.
	www.heorot.dk /beowulf-vorwort.html (6290 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 757-796
		Another charter of Offa's of 772 (S 108) is witnessed both by Cynewulf of the West Saxons and by Ecgberht of Kent.
		The fall of the South Saxons to Offa is also neatly demonstrated in the fact that an Osmund, king of the South Saxons, issued his own charter in 770 (S 49) but was reduced to witnessing a charter of Offa as ealdorman in 772 (S 108).
		It may be that Coenwulf resumed control over the East Saxons in 798, as he did over the people of Kent and shortly after that over the East Angles, but from charters we learn of another East Saxon king, Sigered, in 811.
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet?do=seek&query=757-796 (7051 words)

	The Chronicle: 2/6/2004: The Origins of Occidentalism
		When the West is under attack, as it was on September 11, it is often assumed -- not only in America -- that the West means the United States.
		The West, particularly the United States, was coldly mechanical, a machine civilization without spirit or soul, a place where people mixed to produce mongrel races.
		When the West is seen as the threat to authenticity, then it is the duty of all holy warriors to destroy anything to do with the "Zionist Crusaders," whether it is a U.S. battleship, a British embassy, a Jewish cemetery, a chunk of lower Manhattan, or a disco in Bali.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i22/22b01001.htm (2874 words)

	Highdown Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Just to the west of the camp is a trackway which runs from Ferring to the south to Sullington in the north, which has pre-conquest features.
		On the west side of the hill, halfway down the slope, the remains of a Roman bath house was excavated in 1936 and 1938.
		In 1892 during the planting of trees on the summit of Highdown Hill, a Saxon burial ground was found by the owner of the land and 86 graves were excavated, which occupied most of the inside of the camp and a small area on the outside.
	www2.prestel.co.uk /aspen/sussex/highdown.html (2522 words)

	Old English language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is a West Germanic language and therefore is similar to Old Frisian and Old Saxon.
		Some of these features were specific to the West Germanic language family to which Old English belongs, while some other features were inherited from the Proto-Germanic language from which all Germanic languages are believed to have been derived.
		Like other West Germanic languages of the period, Old English was fully inflected with five grammatical cases, which had dual plural forms for referring to groups of two objects, in addition to the usual singular and plural forms.
	www.toshare.info /en/Englisc.htm (2641 words)

	The Heroic Age: Redundant Ethnogenesis in Beowulf
		Under his direction, the West Saxon royal family, too, had acquired the itch for Geatish ancestors as part of their pedigree and borrowed the Anglian genealogies to trace their own lineage back to Geat (Craig Davis 1996: 51-63).
		The demonstrated descent of the West Saxon royal family from the holy line of Seth was an even more potent technique of political cooption than its claimed connection to Scyld Scefing.
		In this way the West Saxon kings not only descend from the founder of the Danish royal line, they are further descended through Sceaf and Noah from the line of antediluvian patriarchs fathered by Seth.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/5/Davis1.html (6326 words)

	ETYMOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Egbert, the son of the West Saxon king Offa, was the first king of England, and it is he who established the political dominance of the West Saxons.
		The literary activity of the Benedictines and others around the beginning of the millennium gives a substantial corpus of material in Old English, including a record of the pre-Christian Germanic poetic tradition of heroic verse, the most celebrated example of which is Beowulf.
		Although the use of French never extended to the English masses following the Norman Conquest under William over the Saxon king (Harold), the linguistic result of the Norman conquest was to establish French as the language of England, at least in the sense of the language of power and authority.
	hss.fullerton.edu /comparative/ETYMOLOGY_history_lect.htm (1219 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Alfred 'The Great'
		Born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849, Alfred was the fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons.
		A religiously devout and pragmatic man who learnt Latin in his late thirties, he recognised that the general deterioration in learning and religion caused by the Vikings' destruction of monasteries (the centres of the rudimentary education network) had serious implications for rulership.
		Like other West Saxon kings, Alfred established a legal code; he assembled the laws of Offa and other predecessors, and of the kingdoms of Mercia and Kent, adding his own administrative regulations to form a definitive body of Anglo-Saxon law.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page25.asp (1457 words)

	Anglo-Saxon Study of Language
		The first standardized written English was based on Late West Saxon (Godden, 518).
		The Benedictine reform “had its greatest impact” in the south and west of the country around the monastery at Winchester, where the dialect was spoken (Blake, 6).
		The spread of Late West Saxon has been attributed not only to the fact that “the north of England had suffered most from the Scandinavian invasion” (Blake, 6) but also to “deliberate efforts by those in authority” at Winchester (Godden, 519).
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6361Crellin.htm (1199 words)

	Beowulf: The Manuscript
		Dates of origin for the Beowulf manuscript range from the late eighth century to the early eleventh century, and, I'm sorry to say, the question of the date will not be satisfactorily answered here.
		Late West Saxon was the literary dialect used throughout England.
		It is agreed that the Beowulf manuscript is written in, mostly Late West Saxon dialect.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/eliot/722/Manauth.htm (1780 words)

	Dialects of Middle English
		The Southern dialect of Middle English was spoken in the area west of Sussex and south and southwest of the Thames.
		It was the direct descendant of the West Saxon dialect of Old English, which was the colloquial basis for the Anglo-Saxon court dialect of Old English.
		In the West Midlands there is a gradation of dialect peculiarities from Northern to Southern as one moves from Lancashire to Cheshire and then down the Severn valley.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~dringe/CorpStuff/Thesis/Dialects.html (700 words)

	Angelcynn - At West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
		The excavations at West Stow brought together a number of pieces of information which suggest that these buildings were much more complex than a mere hole in the ground covered with some form of bivouac roof.
		The population at West Stow is likely, then, to have rather mixed origins with Angles and Saxons as the basis but with a few Frisians and Franks, as well as surviving Romano-British peasants from the surrounding area.
		The 7th century saw great changes in all three fields: the consolidation of kingdoms, recognisable from the late 6th century; the foundation of towns (Ipswich) and the explosion of trade and distribution; the Christian mission and the establishment of an organised church and monasteries.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/2471/weststow.html (3007 words)

	British Archaeology, no 28, October 1997: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Very little is known about Lindsey, but the organisation of other Saxon kingdoms suggests that its sub-kings may have had a number of royal centres - rather than just one - with the court moving from one centre to another as the year progressed.
		Whether these marine mammals were found beached on the Humber shoreline (to which the manor may have had a preferential right of access), or were the deliberate or accidental catch of seafishing trips cannot yet be known with certainty.
		West Saxon coins of this period (probably from the London mint), including issues of Alfred the Great, continue to be found at Flixborough, but otherwise goods from the Continent ceased altogether.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba28/ba28feat.html (2743 words)

	Old English Lexicography and the Problem of Headword Spelling - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For the last hundred years, Old English lexicography has been heavily influenced by Henry Sweet's Early West Saxon model, a system of normalized spelling based partly on a preoccupation with historical phonology, and partly on a subjective preference for spellings found in manuscripts associated with the reign of King Alfred the Great.
		However, since all but a handful of Old English manuscripts are in Late rather than Early West Saxon, dictionaries with headwords normalized to Sweet's model have limitations as research tools.
		While acknowledging the special debt owed the pioneering scholarship of Sweet, Wrenn argued that the Early West Saxon model was being used in ways which went far beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=99229774 (359 words)

	Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Anglo-Saxon period began in the middle fifth century with the "migration" of three Germanic tribes from northern Germany to the island of Britain.
		The Saxons dominated West Germany before their move to the British Isles, while the Jutes were one of the Low German tribes to join their neighbors in the migration to Britain.
		The three tribes migrated under the pretense of helping the island of Britain defend itself against the Roman Empire, while their true intentions were to conquer it for themselves.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/projf20001b/scroll2.htm (345 words)

	Teaching Packages: Old English
		We also felt strongly that any help offered to students should not be such as to remove the incentive for them to develop their own active knowledge of the language.
		Some might find this choice perverse, given that most Old English is recorded in Late West Saxon, a variety moreover which allows of a degree of variation in the written mode.
		First, as Henry Sweet pointed out many years ago, Early West Saxon serves as a good basis for subsequent philological study, and the differences from Late West Saxon are not that great; an Appendix on the major differences is included in the Grammar Book which is available as part of the package.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/Stella/packs/ess.htm (1054 words)

	Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		However, it was Sweet's disastrous decision to convert his Late West Saxon texts into (unhistorical) Early West Saxon which did untold damage to his subject.
		For those not in the know, the vast majority of extant Old English texts are in the dialect known as Late West Saxon.
		Sweet therefore normalised his text and grammar to the Early West Saxon form, even though a number of the texs in this volume were not written until much later.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/0198111789/Sweet's_Anglo-Saxon_Primer.html (311 words)

	Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 697 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		You also noted that a scholarly text on Anglo-Saxon culture locates Tamworth on a map of 9th century England and asked whether that would be sufficient documentation for the locative byname .
		The normalized late West Saxon form is <{AE}{dh}el{dh}ry{dh}>, where {dh} represents the letter 'edh' (crossed ).
		In the late 12th century the name could have appeared as , though is probably a more typical spelling of the given name by then.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/697.txt (572 words)

	:: Christendom College :: Bulletin :: English Language and Literature
		The formation of Christian literary culture is considered, as is the rise of secularism in the Renaissance coincident with the fragmentation of Christendom by the Protestant Revolt.
		This course treats of the growing fragmentation of Christian culture and civilization consequent on the Protestant Revolt and the so-called Age of Enlightenment, focusing on the changing vision of man’s nature and destiny as reflected in representative literary masterworks.
		ENGL 417 Old English An introductory study of Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain from the sixth through the eleventh centuries, with a focus on Late West Saxon, the dialect in which the vast majority of extant Old English documents was written.
	www.christendom.edu /academics/bulletin/eng.shtml (2787 words)

	E-Intro to Old English - 2. Pronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In late West Saxon, words that contained this vowel are rarely spelled with ie, but rather with i or y.
		The ĭ/ī that arose by i-mutation of ĕa/ēa and ĕo/ēo occurs mainly in early West Saxon texts; i and y occur in later texts (see above).
		Before y in late West Saxon, but only in words where it was spelled ie in early West Saxon.
	www.wmich.edu /medieval/research/rawl/IOE/pronunciation.html (3575 words)

	Regia Anglorum - The Fyrd (Army) in Anglo-Saxon England - Part 2
		Rather than respond to Vikings with ad hoc levies of his local noblemen which were disbanded when the crisis had passed, the West Saxons would now always have a force in the field.
		In the late tenth and eleventh century the system was further refined, at first under Æþelred and later under Cnut.
		And the heriot [death duty paid in arms and armour] of the man who falls before his lord on campaign, whether within the country or abroad, shall be remitted, and the heirs shall succeed to his land and his property and make a very just division of the same.
	www.regia.org /fyrd2.htm (3104 words)

	Beowulf
		However, the arrival of this legend to England surprises modern Englishmen, who today are more isolated from the rest of the Germanic world.
		The language of this version is called Late West Saxon, a dialect of Old English but the poem shows strong hints of being originally composed in an Anglian dialect, quite possible Mercian.
		Old English is the ancestor language of modern English, but the language has changed so much over the years that most modern English speakers would not immediately recognise it as their own language.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/be/beowulf.html (1184 words)

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