Associations to the word «Witenagemote»

Wiktionary

WITENAGEMOTE, noun. (historical) A meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

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