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ANGLO-SAXONS. The term " Anglo-Saxon " is commonly applied to that period of English history, language and literature which preceded the Norman Conquest. It goes back to the time of King Alfred, who seems to have frequently used the title rex Anglorum Saxonum ...

... c and Faerone. Scandinavian (d ) Norwegian. (1 i Swedish. Danish. '**U ) Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, or First (* "V English. ) F.nglisli. Old Saxon. Lm German (f Plait - Deutsch or Low German. a ) Flemish 1 *,„,.,. ., . a Dutch f Netherlandish. B ) Frisic. ) Old High ...

... he frontier between Barotseland (N.W. Rhodesia) and Angola was determined by an Anglo-Portuguess agreement of 1891 and the arbitration award of the king of Italy in 1905 (see AFRICA: History). Up to the end of the igth century the hold of Portugal over the int ...

... e the most brilliant of his long career. A combined effort of the Austrian* and Saxons to retrieve the disasters of the summer by a winter campaign towards Berlin itself led to a hurried concentration ol the Prussians. Frederick from Silesia checked the Austri ...

... ad, umbra — is somehow identical with ihe shadow of a man. More familiar lo Ihe Anglo-Saxon race is Ihe connexion belween Ihe soul and Ihe breath; this identification is found both in Aryan and Semitic languages; in Latin we have spiritus, in Greek pncuma, in ...

... devastating pestilence attacking animals, and through them mankind; the oldest AngloSaxon manuscripts contain many fantastic recipes, leechdoms, charms and incantations (or the prevention or cure of the " Ma. an blezenc " (black blain) and the relief of the " ...

... lace between 1905 and 1907. Identifying itself with the extreme Chauvinists and Anglophobes it profited by the anti-national errors of the Clericals and Socialists, and won no fewer than twelve by-elections. At the general election of 1907 its jingoism and agg ...

ANVIL (from Anglo-Saxon anfilt or onfilti, either that on which something is " welded " or " folded," cf. German /alien, to fold, or connected with other Teutonic forms of the word, cf. German ambuss, in which case the final syllable is from " beat," and the m ...

... ed many Celtic immigrants from the British Isles, fleeing (it is said) from the Saxons; and the Celtic dialect which the Bretons still speak is thought to owe its origin to these immigrants. (See further BRITTANY.)

... the khalifa's forces under Mahmud and Sir Herbert (afterwards Lord) Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army, resulted in the complete defeat of the Mahdists and the capture of their leader, and paved the way for the decisive battle of Omdurman on the 2nd of September ...

... n 1838 by complications in Afghanistan, which excited the fears not only of the Anglo-Indian government but of the home authorities. Lord Auckland resolved to enter upon a war, and on the ist of October 1838 published at Simla his famous manifesto dethroning D ...

... e the most brilliant of his long career. A combined effort of the Austrian* and Saxons to retrieve the disasters of the summer by a winter campaign towards Berlin itself led to a hurried concentration ol the Prussians. Frederick from Silesia checked the Austri ...

... on French analogies. The 1 2th century is a brilliant period in the history of Anglo-Latin literature, and many works of merit were written in French (see ANGLO-NORMAN). But vernacular literature is scanty and of little originality. The Peterborough Chronicle ...

... c, Genius, Beauty and Manners, Mi Possession, Duty, The Superlative, Truth, The Anglo-Saxon, The Young American. When the lectures had served their purpose he rearranged the material in essays and published them. Thus appeared in succession the following volum ...

... ing the expedition vanished with the signature, on the ist of July 1890, of the Anglo-German agreement defining the spheres of influence of the two nations, an agreement which excluded the Albert Nyanza region from the German sphere. For a time things went wel ...

... he hatching of Gunpowder Plot. The parish is of great extent (12,653 acres). An Anglo-Saxon derivation, signifying " forest clearing," is indicated for the name. Enfield Chase was a royal preserve, disafforested in 1777. The principal manor of Enfield, which w ...

... a round tower at each corner, is one of the earliest military structures of the Anglo-Norman invaders, founded by Raymond le Gros (1176). Ferns, the next station to Enniscorthy on the railway towards Dublin, was the seat of a former bishopric, and the moderniz ...

... Eocene deposits of southern Europe differ in a marked manner from those of the Anglo-Parisian basin. The most important feature is the great development of nummulitic limestone with thin marls and nummulitic sandstones. The sea in which the nummulitic limesto ...

... Maclver s mearrhe* in n,)rthi-rn Nul>u, begun in 1907, will be found under ,\: Anglo-Egyptian. Tkt Axtimite Kingdom.— About the ist century of the Christian en a new kingdom grew up at Axum (q.v.), of which a king Zasades is mentioned in the Periptus Moris Er ...

... lish EttmUllcr contributed by an alliterative translation of Beowulf (1840), an Anglo-Saxon chrcstomathy entitled Engla and Seaxna scopas and boceras (1850), and a well-known Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum (1851), in which the explanations and comments arc given in L ...

... . P. Fallmerayer, Fragmenta aus dem Orient (Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1845); V. I^anglois, Le Mont Athos ft ses monasteres, with a complete bibliography (Paris, 1867); Duchesne and Bayet, Memoire sur une mission en Macedoine et au Mont Athos (Paris, 1876); Texie ...

... e intent is had without it" (Answers to Cardinal Perron, &c., p. 19, Library of AngloCatholic Theology). It does not follow, however, that a custom which has ceased to exist is of necessity forbidden, nor even that what was rejected by the authorities of the E ...

... Macrobius, Saturn, iii. 17. For Great Britain see Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (" Rolls Series," ed. T. Arnold, 1879); W. Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and 1 See Captain F. Brinkley's Japan, its History, Arts and Literature (1904), i. 138, 2 ...

... ast require further investigation. Some of them are called " humming-birds " by Anglo-Indians and colonists, but with that group, which, as before indicated (see HUMMING-BIRD), belongs to the Picariae, the sun-birds, being true Passeres, have nothing to do. Th ...

... Vertitur ad solem; mutataque servat amorem " — and likewise the solsaece of the Anglo-Saxon, a word equivalent to solsequium (sun-following). But this movement with the sun is more imaginary than real, the better explanation for the application of the name to ...

... scarcely mentioned in any document of his own time. His death is entered in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 86 1; and his signature is appended to several charters in Kemble's Codex diplomaticus. Of these charters three belong to 833, 838, 860-862. In ...

... he attempt was renewed. The Atlantic Telegraph Company was reconstituted as the AngloAmerican Telegraph Company with a capital of £600,000 and sufficient cable was ordered not only to lay a line across the ocean but also to complete the 1865 cable. The " Great ...

... e Spanish and Mexican population was never very large, that the first permanent Anglo-American settlement was not established until 1821, that there was ill-feeling between the two peoples almost from the very beginning, and that in fifteen years the Americans ...

... 1910, though French officers had reached Borku on its southern borders. By the Anglo-French declaration of the 2ist of March 1899 Tibesti was included in the French sphere of influence in North Africa.

... sion because he disliked the proceedings of James II., and became colonel of an Anglo-Dutch regiment, usually stationed in Holland. At the head of his men he landed in England with William of Orange in 1688 and was made governor of Portsmouth and colonel of th ...

... and in the British Museum. Trevet s other historical works are Catalogue regum anglo-saxonum durante heptarchia, and Les Cronicles qefrere N. Trevet escript a dame Marie (" Marie " was Edward I.'s daughter Mary). From the latter Chaucer is believed to have ob ...

... estern highlands, along an irregular line determined by aggressive Americans of Anglo-Saxon stock against Americans of Spanish stock. The northern boundary, after an arbitrary beginning, finds a natural extension along the Great Lakes, and thence continues alo ...

... rowning defeat at Koniggratz. Under the crown prince's leadership, however, the Saxons distinguished themselves by their courage and steadiness wherever they were engaged. After the war Saxony became part of the North German Confederation, and in 18701871 her ...