Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names

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Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names

Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attempted to interpret the material in isolation from it...

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Main Author:	Baker, John
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley 2017
Subjects:	Onomastics; Folk-names; Anglo-Saxon England; Early medieval
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32845/

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