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Witenagemote
Witenagemote Wit"e*na*ge*mote` (?; 277), n. [AS. witena gem[=o]t an assembly of the wise; wita a wise man + gem[=o]t assembly.] (AS. Hist.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

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- ōs byþ ordfruma ǣlcre sprǣce wīsdōmes wraþu and wītena frōfur and eorla gehwām ēadnys and tō hiht god is the origin of all language wisdom's foundation...
- until the Norman Conquest removed it. Anglo-Saxon kings were elected by the witena gemót. Finally, the principle survived in some form or other for centuries...
- Valhalla. Old English ᚩ Ōs bẏþ ordfruma ælcre spræce wisdomes wraþu and witena frofur, and eorla gehwam eadnẏs and tohiht. The mouth is the source of all...
- important political institution. The name derives from the Old English ƿitena ȝemōt, or witena gemōt, for "meeting of wise men". The first recorded act of a witenagemot...
- council, the Witenagemot. The name derives from the Old English ƿitena ȝemōt, or witena gemōt, for "meeting of wise men". The first recorded act of a witenagemot...
- was elected from among eligible members of a royal family or cynn by the witena ġemōt, an ****embly of an elite that replaced the earlier folkmoot, which...
- 489 in the 2021 census. Whitnash was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Witenas, by 1326 it had become Whiten****he meaning 'white ash'. As Whitnash is...
- (1.9 mi) to the south). According to Enn Tarvel, the site was known as Witena in 1290, which semantically corresponds to the name Valgejõe (both meaning...
- from Gotland around the Kolga sub-monastery, listing among other villages Witena/Valgejõe. The commemoration stone to first written notion of the village...