Definition of Byrig. Meaning of Byrig. Synonyms of Byrig

- (particularly in the East Anglian region of England and Scotland) "burgh". Byrig was the plural form of burh and burg: "forts", "fortifications". It was...
- At the Battle of Beran Byrig or Beranburh the West Saxons are said to have defeated the Britons at Barbury Castle hillfort near Swindon in or around 556...
- brings reinforcements. Ragnall captures the partially built burh of Eads Byrig and demands they cede Ceaster to him, but Uhtred knows Ceaster's fortifications...
- burgum ge buton burgum. & gewitnes sy geset to ælcere byrig & to æl**** hundrode. To ælcere byrig ****VI syn gecorone to gewitnesse; to smalum burgum & to...
- clearly been fortified so the Jutes called it Eald-byrig from the Anglo-Saxon eald (old) and byrig (fortified place). The chalk North Downs have a layer...
- Legraceastre, ⁊ he hy gewyldan meahte, nære þæt hi on niht ut ne ætburston of þære byrig, ⁊ æfter þæm begeat Anlaf Eadmundes cynges freondscipe, ⁊ se cyning Eadmund...
- following the defeat of the Romano-British at the Battle of Beranburgh, Beran Byrig or Beranbyrig in AD 556. Centuries later the area was a favourite haunt...
- It was first recorded in the Cartularium Saxoni**** in 1010 as Speoles byrig. In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded the village as Spelesberie. Spelsbury...
- word burh (whose dative singular and nominative/accusative plural form byrig sometimes underlies modern place-names, and which had dialectal variants...
- the indigenous Brittonic name with the Old English suffixes -burh and -byrig, denoting fortresses or their adjacent settlements.) The longer name was...