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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope