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Hwiccas

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Hwiccas, Hwicceas, and Hwiccan [?] or [?] Hwicce [cf. Seaxe]; pl.
The people of a small state which extended over Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and part of Warwickshire
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  • Ðæt is geseted in Huicca mægþe in ðære stówe ðe mon háteþ Weogernaceaster

    it is situated in the province of the Hwiccas, in the place that is called, Worcester,

    • Chart. Th. 28, 31.
  • Férde ðá in Hwicca mægþe ðǽr wæs ðá Ósríc cyning

    divertit ad provinciam Huicciorum cut tunc rex Osric præfuit,

    • Bd. 4, 23
    • ;
    • S. 594, 22
    • .
  • Wilfrid is Hwicna biscop

    provinciæ Huicciorum Vilfrid episcopus,

    • 5, 23
    • ;
    • S. 646, 22
    • .
  • Ðý ilcan dæge rád Æþelmund aldorman of Hwiccium [Hwiccum MS. E.] ofer æt Cynemǽres forda. Ðá métte hine Weoxtan aldorman mid Wilsǽtum,

    • Chr. 800
    • ;
    • Erl. 60, 5
    • .
  • Seó cwén ðære nama wæs Æbbe on hire mægþe ðæt is on Hwyccum wæs gefullad

    regina nomine Eabæ in sua, id est, Huicciorum provincia fuerat baptizata,

    • Bd. 4, 13
    • ;
    • S. 582, 16.
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v.  Hwinca Hwyccas Hiccas.
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