West Saxon (English spelling)

Japanese: West Saxon(英語表記)WestSaxon
West Saxon (English spelling)

…It was originally one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons in the Middle Ages, and ruled an area roughly covering the present-day counties of Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, and Avon. The name comes from the West Saxon tribe. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Saxons, who arrived from the continent around 495, founded the kingdom in southern Hampshire in 519. During the first half of the 9th century under King Egbert, it became the center of the seven kingdoms, and during the reign of Alfred the Great (871-899), it prevented the invasion of the Danes and unified England. …

From [English]

…OE is divided into four dialects according to the area where each tribe settled: (1) Northumbrian, in the north of the Humber River in northern England; (2) Mercian, in the south up to the Thames River (these two dialects are sometimes called Anglian, since they were spoken in the area where the Angles settled); (3) Kentish, in the southeast where the Jutes settled; and (4) West-Saxon, in the area where the Saxons settled.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "West Saxon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…もとは中世のアングロ・サクソン七王国中の一つの王国名で,ほぼ現在のハンプシャー,ワイト島,バークシャー,ウィルトシャー,ドーセット,サマーセット,エーボンの各州にまたがる領域を支配した。地名はウェスト・サクソンWest Saxon族に由来。《アングロ・サクソン年代記》によれば,495年ころ大陸より来住したサクソン人が,519年にハンプシャー南部で建国したのが始まりで,9世紀前半のエグバート王時代には七王国の中心となり,またアルフレッド大王時代(871‐899)にはデーン人の侵入を防いでイングランドの統一をなした。…

【英語】より

…OEは各部族の定住した地域により次の四つの方言に分けられる。(1)イングランド北部,ハンバー川以北のノーサンブリア方言Northumbrian,(2)その南,テムズ川までのマーシア方言Mercian(この二つはアングル人の定住地域に行われたので合わせてアングリア方言と呼ぶこともある),(3)ジュート人の定住した南東部のケント方言Kentish,(4)サクソン人の定住したウェスト・サクソン方言West‐Saxon(略称WS。ウェセックス王国の英語)である。…

※「West Saxon」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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