Germania
- noun [ feminine ]
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Nú wille we ymb Europe land-gemǽre reccan, swá mycel swá we hit fyrmest witon.-Fram ðære eá Danais, west óþ Rín ða eá, [seó wylþ of ðæm beorge ðe man Alpis hǽt, and yrnþ ðonne norþ-ryhte on ðæs gársecges earm, ðe ðæt land útanymblíþ, ðe man Bryttannia hǽt] and eft súþ óþ Donua ða eá, [ðære ǽwylme is neáh ðære eá Rínes, and is siððan eást yrnende wið norþan Créca land út on ðone Wendel-Sǽ] and norþ óþ ðone gársecg, ðe man Cwén-Sǽ hǽt: binnan ðǽm syndon manega þeóda; ac hit man hǽt eall, GERMANIA
now we will speak, as much as we know, about the boundaries of Europe.-From the river Don, westward to the river Rhine, [which springs from the Alps, and then runs right north into the arm of the ocean, that lies around the country called Britain] and again south to the river Danube, [whose spring is near the river Rhine, and which afterwards runs east by the country north of Greece into the Mediterranean Sea] and north to the ocean, which is called the White Sea; within these are many nations, but it is all called GERMANIA
- Ors. 1, 1 ;
- Bos. 18, 20-28 .
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Cómon hí of þrím folcum ðám strangestan Germanie ðæt of Seaxum, and of Angle, and of Geátum
advenerunt de tribus Germaniæ populis fortioribus, id est Saxonibus, Anglis, Jutis,
- Bd. 1, 15 ;
- S. 483, 20 .
Bosworth, Joseph. “Germania.” 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/15742.
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