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- (particularly in the East Anglian region of England and Scotland) "burgh". Byrig was the plural form of burh and burg: "forts", "fortifications". It was...
- 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...
- 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...
- word burh (whose dative singular and nominative/accusative plural form byrig sometimes underlies modern place-names, and which had dialectal variants...
- 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...
- site of Liddington Castle on the hill above Badbury (Old English: Baddan byrig) in Wiltshire. This site commands The Ridgeway, which connects the River...
- and management of the scrub. The name Cadbury is derived from "Cada's byrig"; byrig is the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "fort" or "town", which is frequently...
- 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...
- nan man ne forsace⋅ ⁊ gange án gemet ⁊ án geƿihte⋅ sƿilce man on Lunden-bẏrig ⁊ on Ƿintan-ceastre healde⋅ ⁊ ga seo ƿæge ƿulle to ⋅cxx⋅ p̃. ⁊ nan man hig...