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

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.