- (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...
-
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...
-
brings reinforcements.
Ragnall captures the
partially built burh of Eads
Byrig and
demands they cede
Ceaster to him, but
Uhtred knows Ceaster's fortifications...
- site of
Liddington Castle on the hill
above Badbury (Old English:
Baddan byrig) in
Wiltshire west of Swindon. This site, an Iron Age hill fort with signs...
-
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...
- 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...
- word burh (whose
dative singular and nominative/accusative
plural form
byrig sometimes underlies modern place-names, and
which had
dialectal variants...
-
meaning of
Cronberry is
suggested by
Johnston as
being from the
Gaelic cronag, a 'a fort' and the Old
English byrig, a 'burgh' or 'fortified place'....
- 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...
