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Saxon customary law, or Landrecht, was the law of free people including the peasant sokemanry. It contains important rules and regulations concerning property rights, inheritance, marriage, the delivery of goods, and certain torts (e.g. trespass, nuisance). It also treats criminal law and the composition of courts.
Exeter Book folio 125v, showing Riddles 68 and 69 towards the bottom of the folio. Each is presented as a separate text, like Riddle 70 which begins on the third line from the bottom. Exeter Book Riddles 68 and 69 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records ) [ 1 ] are two (or arguably one) of the Old English riddles found in ...
The Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales/Saxon Chronicles in the US and The Warrior Chronicles and most recently as The Last Kingdom series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of England in the ninth and tenth centuries. The series consists of 13 novels.
Exeter Book Riddle 83 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book.Its interpretation has occasioned a range of scholarly investigations, but it is taken to mean 'Ore/Gold/Metal', with most commentators preferring 'precious metal' or 'gold', [2] and John D. Niles arguing specifically for the ...
Exeter Book Riddle 60 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book.The riddle is usually solved as 'reed pen', although such pens were not in use in Anglo-Saxon times, rather being Roman technology; but it can also be understood as 'reed pipe'.
The Empty Throne is the eighth historical novel in The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in October 2014. It is set in 10th-century Mercia and Dyfed . Plot summary
The Deeds of the Saxons, or Three Books of Annals (Latin: Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres) is a three-volume chronicle of 10th-century Germany, written by Widukind of Corvey. [1] Widukind, proud of his people and history, begins his chronicon, not with Rome , but with a brief synopsis derived from the orally-transmitted history of ...
The Saxon Stories: Genre: Historical novel: Published: 3 October 2005: Publisher: HarperCollins: Publication place: United Kingdom: Media type: Print (hardback, paperback) and audio book: Pages: 400 (hardback) ISBN: 0-00-714992-1 (first, hardback edition) OCLC: 60667779: Preceded by: The Last Kingdom Followed by: The Lords of the North