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Dane-law|ˈdeɪnlɔː|
Also 1 Dena laᵹu, 3 Denelaȝe, Dene lawe, 6 Dane lawe, 8 Dane-lage, (-lege), 9 Dane-lagh. Latinized 2 Denelaga, 2–9 Danelaga.
[OE. Dęna laᵹu Danes' law, of which Dane-law is a modern equivalent.]
1. The Danish law anciently in force over that part of England which was occupied or held by the Danes.
c1050Laws of Edw. & Guthr. 7 (Bosw.) Gylde lahslihte inne on Dena laᵹe and wite mid Englum. a1135Leges Hen. I, vi. 2 in Stubbs Sel. Chart. iii. 100 Legis etiam Anglicae trina est partitio..alia enim Westsexiae, alia Mircena, alia Denelaga est. a1300Shires of Eng. in O.E. Misc. 146 Þes .xxxij. schire syndon to delede on þreo lawan. On is west-sexene lawe, oþer Dene lawe, þe þrydde Mercena lawe..To Dene lawe bilympeþ .xv. schire. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) p. xvi, The Dane lawe, West-Saxon lawe, and Merchen lawe: The first of which was brought in by the Danes. 1765Blackstone Comm. (1830) I. Introd. 66 The Dane-Lage, or Danish law, the very name of which speaks its original and composition.
2. Hence, The part of England over which this law prevailed, being the district north-east of Watling Street, ceded by the Treaty of Wedmore, 878, or perhaps the Northumbrian territory in Danish occupation.
This use appears explicitly only in modern historians (chiefly under the barbarous forms Dane-lage, Dane-lagh, which are neither Old nor modern English), though founded on ancient passages, such as those of quots. 1050, 1300, in 1. [In Icelandic lög ‘law’ had, according to Vigfusson, the sense ‘law-district’, ‘almost as a local name’ in Gulaþings-lög, þrænda-lög, etc.]
1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 299/2 The eastern part of England retained long after the name of Danelagh, or Danish law. 1874Green Short Hist. i. 50 The Danelagh, as the district occupied by the Danes began to be called. 1877Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) II. 663 Danes in the sense of being inhabitants of the Denalagu. 1886F. York Powell Hist. Eng. to 1509, i. vi. 37 He [K. Eadmund] got the whole Danelaw south of Humber into his hands. |