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Danelagh

Danelagh is the alternative form of Danelaw.

Meaning of Danelaw

Proper noun

Danelaw

  1. The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.
  2. The set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the English Alfred the Great and the Danish Guthrum the Old.

Questions about Danelagh

What is Danelagh the alternative form of?
Danelagh is the alternative form of Danelaw.

Words near Danelagh in the dictionary

  1. danegeld
  2. Danegelt
  3. Danehower
  4. Danek
  5. Daneks
  6. Danelagh
  7. Daneland
  8. Danelaw
  9. Daneman
  10. Danemen
  11. Danenberg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Danelagh (page history and authors); Danelaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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