Iclingas

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - iclingas

According to the Old English Dictionary:

Iclingas
pl. The name of a Mercian family to which St. Guthlac belonged :-- Hé was ðæs yldestan and ðæs æðelstan cynnes ðe Iclingas wǽron genemnede he [Guthlac's father] was of that chiefest and noblest race that were called Iclings, Guthl. 1 ; Gdwin. 8, 4. [Icelingtun (Ickleton in Cambridgeshire?) occurs Cod. Dipl. Kmbl, iand there is Icklingham in Suffolk.] iclingas

Related words: 300, 24;

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