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Æsces dún

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Æsces dún, e; f. [æsc ash-tree, dún a hill]
ASHDOWN, the hill of the ash-tree, on the Ridgeway in Berkshire, where Alfred and his elder brother, king Ethelred, first routed the Danes; 'dicitur Latine mons fraxini,' Asser
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  • Hér gefeaht Æðeréd cyning and Ælfréd, his bróðor, wið ealne ðone here, on Æsces dúne A.D. 871,

    here fought king Æthelred and Alfred, his brother, with all the army [of the Danes], on Ashdown,

    • Chr. 871; Th. 139, 5, col. 1
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Æsces dún.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/843.

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