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Sweordoras

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
Sweordoras, (?); pl. m.
A people of Mercia occupying a district of three hundred hides
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  • Sweordora þryú hund hýda

    (the name occurs in a list of districts in the land of the Mercians),
    • Cod. Dip. B. i. 414, 21.
Etymology
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  • Mr. Birch
suggests a connection with Swerford in Oxfordshire, and with the river Swere.
Could the word contain as its second part the Celtic dwr = water, seen in many river names, v.
  • Taylor's Names and Places, p. 133
, and mean the dwellers by the river Swere?
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “Sweordoras.” 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/29703.

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