Word origins

• yrA letter of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, ᚣ, representing the vowel sounds /y/ and /yː/ in Old English.
• entAn otorhinolaryngologist; a physician who treats the ear, nose, and throat.
• oraA unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons.
• siblingA person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
• WiccaA neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by the Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.
• BeowulfA renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
• scopA poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
• CaedmonA famous Northumbrian poet, the author of Cædmon's Hymn.
• wyrdFate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.
• wyrmA huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.
• beagA ring.
• nicorA sea monster.
• HrothgarA semi-legendary Danish king living around the early sixth century CE.
• EthelredEthelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871.
• witanThe Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot.
• HeorotA legendary mead hall ruled over by Hrothgar, as described in the poem Beowulf.
• theedLanguage.
• Ælfricthe name of several historically significant men in tenth- and eleventh-century England
• æscThe name of the Latin script letter Æ/æ.
• AethelredA male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871.
• atgarA kind of spear or lance formerly in use.
• atheedLanguage.
• botleasToo grievous to be atoned for by the payment of a bōt or bōte; irredeemable, unpardonable.
• burhA fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.
• ceorlAn Anglo-Saxon churl.
• cyningAn Anglo-Saxon (early English) king.
• ealdormanThe chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.
• eorlAn Anglo-Saxon of noble rank; a nobleman ranking above a thane; alderman.
• eorlcundmanA kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
• EostreA hypothesised West Germanic goddess, supposedly of the spring season, but of uncertain provenance.
• eotenA giant from Old English literature and mythology.
• esneA hireling of servile status; slave.
• evenglomeTwilight; dusk; crepusculum.
• evennightEquinox.
• faederA male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.
• feorm-fultumIn Anglo-Saxon law, a tax for the king's sustentation as he went through his realm.
• frumgildIn Anglo-Saxon law, the first payment made to the kindred of a person slain, toward the recompense of his murder.
• fyrdIn early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
• gafolgelderAn Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
• geburIn Anglo-Saxon law, the owner of an allotment or yard-land, usually consisting of 30 acres; a villein.
• gemotA (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
• geneatA retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
• gesithA companion to an athel or king in medieval England; a thegn; a comrade
• gesithcundHaving the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.
• gesithcundmanA gesith.
• gesithmanA gesith.
• geteldA tent, of a style historically used by the Anglo-Saxons, which resembles a shelter-half or pup tent.
• hadbotRecompense demanded under old English law for violence or insult to a person in holy orders.
• healsfangIn Anglo-Saxon law, a fine or mulct of uncertain character.
• heretogaAn Anglo-Saxon army leader or commander; a general; a duke.
• hidegildA tax paid on each hide of land; hidage.
• hlafordAn Anglo-Saxon lord.
• HrethaAn Anglo-Saxon goddess.
• landfyrdA ground force; ground expedition; militia; army.
• lithsmanA warrior-sailor during the rule of Danish kings of England (especially from Canute onwards).
• maegthIn Anglo-Saxon England, an extended family, a kind of kindred group; clan, tribe, generation, stock, race, people
• magboteCompensation paid by someone who killed their relative.
• manboteA sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
• mathomA trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.
• mildheartednessThe quality of being mild (gentle, not easily angered).
• nightgloomDarkness of the night; night gloom.
• orlayFate, destiny.
• sceatA small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).
• scyleTo hide; to secrete; to conceal.
• seaxA short Saxon sword.
• SeaxneatA god or legendary king of the Anglo-Saxons
• shritheTo move; to proceed; to creep, roam, wander.
• sixhyndmanA man worth six hundred shillings in wergeld.
• sulungA unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.
• TheodismA form of Germanic neopaganism developed in the United States, based on Anglo-Saxon practices in England before conversion to Christianity.
• ThrowendsThe people of Trøndelag
• thyleA member of an early medieval Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon court whose exact function is now unclear, but appears to roughly have been that of an authority on the fields of history and legend, especially their recital and interpretation.
• twelfhyndmanA man worth twelve hundred shillings in wergeld.
• twyhyndmanA man worth two hundred shillings in wergeld.
• wealhIn Anglo-Saxon England, a speaker of a Brythonic language, especially Welsh.
• wergeldBlood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.
• witenagemotAny of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.
• wordhoardVocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.