Associations to the word «Danelaw»

Wiktionary

DANELAW, proper noun. (history) The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.
DANELAW, proper noun. (history) The set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the English Alfred the Great and the Danish Guthrum the Old.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats