单词 | danelaw |
释义 | Danelawn. 1. The Danish law anciently in force over that part of England which was occupied or held by the Danes. ΘΚΠ society > law > system of laws > [noun] > English > Danish in England Danelawc1050 c1050 Laws of Edw. & Guthr. 7 (Bosw.) Gylde lahslihte inne on Dena lage and wite mid Englum. a1135 Leges Hen. I vi. 2 in W. Stubbs Select Charters iii. 100 Legis etiam Anglicae trina est partitio..alia enim Westsexiae, alia Mircena, alia Denelaga est. a1300 Shires of Eng. in Old Eng. 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. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 5 The Dane law, West-Saxon law, and Merchen law: The first of whiche was brought in by the Danes. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (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 (formerly chiefly under the forms Dane-lage, Dane-lagh), though founded on ancient passages, such as those of quots. c1050 at sense 1, a1300 at sense 1. [In Icelandic lög ‘law’ had, according to Vigfusson, the sense ‘law-district’, ‘almost as a local name’ in Gulaþings-lög, þrænda-lög, etc.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England > Old English districts or kingdoms Merchene lawc1275 West-Saxonry1650 Danelaw1837 Saxondom1841 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 299/2 The eastern part of England retained long after the name of Danelagh, or Danish law. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §6. 50 The Danelagh, as the district occupied by the Danes began to be called. 1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) II. 663 Danes in the sense of being inhabitants of the Denalagu. 1885 F. Y. Powell in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. I. i. vi. 37 He [sc. Eadmund] got the whole Danelaw south of Humber into his hands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1050 |
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