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ætheling

ætheling is the alternative spelling of atheling.

Meaning of atheling

Noun

atheling (plural athelings)

  1. (otherwise obsolete) A prince; especially, an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
    • […]to substitute as the Confessor′s heir, the Atheling Edward (son of Edmund Ironside), who was then an exile in Hungary. After the atheling′s return from exile, and his very suspicious death in England in 1057, the Norman duke must surely have realized that his chief opponent in England was likely...1966, Dorothy Whitelock, The Norman Conquest, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 60

Forms of ætheling

pluralæthelings

Questions about ætheling

What is ætheling the alternative spelling of?
Ætheling is the alternative spelling of atheling.

Words near ætheling in the dictionary

  1. æternities
  2. æternity
  3. æthalia
  4. æthalium
  5. Æthelbert
  6. ætheling
  7. æthelings
  8. Æthelred
  9. æther
  10. æther wave
  11. æther waves

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