Wendel Sea

alternative Wendel sea · alternative Wendel-Sea · alternative Wendel-sea

1. historicalAnglo-SaxonThe Mediterranean Sea.

   He invariably names this sea the Wendel Sea.

   1859, Paulus Orosius, Joseph Bosworth, Robert Thomas Hampson, King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Compendium

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   From the river Danais (Tanais) westward to the river Rhine, which takes its rise in the Alps, whence it runs northward to the arm of the ocean that surrounds Britannia, and south to the river Donua or Danube, whose source is near that of the Rhine, and runs eastward in the north of Greece, till it empties itself into the Wendel sea, or Mediterranean, and north even unto the ocean, which men call Cwen sea (or the White sea). Within this are many nations, and the whole of this tract of country is called Germany.

   1807, Ezekiel Blomfield, A general view of the world

   That same year Charles succeeded to the western kingdom, and to all the kingdom on this side the Wendel sea, and beyond this sea, in like manner as his great-grand-father had it, with the exception of the Lid-wiccas.

   1852, Alfred (England, King), The Whole Works

   There many a proud one at Wendel-sea Stood on the shore. They severally hastened Over the mark-paths, band after band, And then they loaded with battle-sarks, With shields and spears, with mail-clad warriors,[…]

   1911, Judith Elene, Athelstan

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wendel Sea.