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Gewisse, the Glossary

The Gewisse (Geuissæ) were a tribe or ruling clan of the Anglo-Saxons.^[1]

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5th century in England
Anglo-Saxon settlements
Medieval Berkshire
Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England
States and territories established in the 5th century

Abingdon-on-Thames

Abingdon-on-Thames, commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.

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Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.

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Ancient Celtic religion

Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, during the initial period of Early Medieval England.

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Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies

A number of royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, have been preserved in a manuscript tradition based in the 8th to 10th centuries.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Barbara Yorke

Barbara Yorke FRHistS FSA (born 1951, Barbara Anne Elizabeth Troubridge) is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in many subtopics, including 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism.

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Barbury Castle

Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England.

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Battle of Peonnum

The Battle of Peonnum was fought about AD 660 between the West Saxons under Cenwalh and the Britons of what is now Somerset in England.

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Bede

Bede (Bēda; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.

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Birinus

Birinus (also Berin, Birin; – 3 December 649 or 650) was the first Bishop of Dorchester and was known as the "Apostle to the West Saxons" for his conversion of the Kingdom of Wessex to Christianity.

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Bookland (law)

Bookland (bōcland) was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter.

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Cædwalla

Cædwalla (659 – 20 April 689 AD) was the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Cerdic of Wessex

Cerdic (Cerdicus) is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Wessex, reigning from around 519 to 534 AD.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Common Brittonic

Common Brittonic (Brythoneg; Brythonek; Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is an extinct Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany.

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Continuum International Publishing Group

Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.

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Cynegils

Cynegils was King of Wessex from c. 611 to c. 642.

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Diocese of Winchester

The Diocese of Winchester forms part of the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England.

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Dorchester on Thames

Dorchester on Thames (or Dorchester-on-Thames) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about northwest of Wallingford and southeast of Oxford.

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Eilert Ekwall

Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877 in Vallsjö – 23 November 1964 in Lund) was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the first half of the 20th century.

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Ethnonym

An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Helena Hamerow

Helena Francisca Hamerow, (born 18 September 1961) is an American archaeologist, best known for her work on the archeology of early medieval communities in Northwestern Europe.

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Hwicce

Hwicce was a kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England.

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Jutes

The Jutes were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in Great Britain after the departure of the Romans. Gewisse and Jutes are peoples of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Kingdom of Sussex

The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (from Suth-sæxe, in turn from Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning "(land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Sarum

Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury.

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Origin myth

An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.

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Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society

The Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS) has existed in one form or another since at least 1839, although with its current name only since 1972. Gewisse and Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society are history of Oxfordshire.

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Provenance

Provenance is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.

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Richard Coates

Richard Coates (born 16 April 1949, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and educated at Wintringham School) is an English linguist.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sæberht of Essex

Sæberht, Saberht or Sæbert (d. 616) was an Anglo-Saxon King of Essex (r. 604 – 616), in succession of his father King Sledd.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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Wessex

The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. Gewisse and Wessex are peoples of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewisse

Also known as Gewissae, Gewissei, Ġewisse.

Gewisse, the Glossary

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See also

5th century in England

Anglo-Saxon settlements

Medieval Berkshire

Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England

States and territories established in the 5th century

References