The ruins are still charred and blackened by the West Saxon fires.

The West Saxon prose literature may be said to begin in Alfred's reign.

Next year Swegen died, and the West Saxon witan sent back for Æthelred.

Will they be content to remain under a West Saxon king?

The West Saxon army was not at once disbanded.

Dorchester became successively the seat of two great bishoprics -theone West Saxon, the other Mercian.

Formerly the seat of the West Saxon Kings.

Here the conquering West Saxon met his most serious set-back and almost his only real defeat.

There about 681 he met St Wilfrid who had fled, too, from the West Saxon kingdom.

The West Saxon court is no place for him, quite other views of kingship prevailing in those parts.

The real origin of the town-name is supposed to be the West Saxon "Maer-leah" or cattle boundary.

For her and for Northumbria the conquest was but a change from a West Saxon to a Danish master.

I heard only of a West Saxon, and whether this is luck for you or not I do not know.

The town, nevertheless, is very pleasant despite its strenuous endeavour to make money in a way Mercian rather than West Saxon.

"'Tis West Saxon," said an old warrior from the waist.

The following examples will give a sufficient idea of the commoner forms of declension in the classical West Saxon of the time of Ælfred.