A dialect of Middle English.
1The ruins are still charred and blackened by the West Saxon fires.
2The West Saxon prose literature may be said to begin in Alfred's reign.
3Next year Swegen died, and the West Saxon witan sent back for Æthelred.
4Will they be content to remain under a West Saxon king?
5The West Saxon army was not at once disbanded.
6Dorchester became successively the seat of two great bishoprics -theone West Saxon, the other Mercian.
7Formerly the seat of the West Saxon Kings.
8Here the conquering West Saxon met his most serious set-back and almost his only real defeat.
9There about 681 he met St Wilfrid who had fled, too, from the West Saxon kingdom.
10The West Saxon court is no place for him, quite other views of kingship prevailing in those parts.
11The real origin of the town-name is supposed to be the West Saxon "Maer-leah" or cattle boundary.
12For her and for Northumbria the conquest was but a change from a West Saxon to a Danish master.
13I heard only of a West Saxon, and whether this is luck for you or not I do not know.
14The town, nevertheless, is very pleasant despite its strenuous endeavour to make money in a way Mercian rather than West Saxon.
15The following examples will give a sufficient idea of the commoner forms of declension in the classical West Saxon of the time of Ælfred.
16The completion of the West Saxon realm was reserved for Edmund, son of Aethelstan, who ascended the throne in 940, being a mere boy.
Translations for West Saxon