Cyménes óra

Old English Dictionary Entry

Cyménes óra

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: 33, 22] the name occurs as Cumenes-hora, a form which countenances Ingram's guess that Shoreham is the place; quasi

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1 Cyménes óra

m. Cymen's shore, near Wittering, Sussex; Cymēni lītus, qui ibi naves ad terrain appulit. Nunc nomen amisit, sed fuisse prope Wittering, in agro Sussexiensi, Charta Donatiònis UNCERTAIN quam Cedwalla Rex Ecclesiæ Selsiensi fecit, planissĭme convincit, Camd. Camden and, after him, Gibson say, in the preceding Latin, this place was near Wittering on the coast of Sussex. They rely on a Charter which Kemble [Cod. Dipl. 992] has marked as spurious, but which was no doubt constructed with a regard for probability. In this Charter [Cod. Dipl. 992; A. D. 683; Kmbl. Cymeneshoreham, in this year, A. D. 477, Ælle came to Britain, and his three sons, Cymen, and Wlencing, and Cissa, with three ships, at the place which is named Cymen's shore, and there slew many Welsh, and drove some in flight into the wood which is named Andredsley, Chr. 477; Erl. 12, 28-32. cymenes ora

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ᚳᚣᛗᛖᚾᛖᛋ ᚩᚱᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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