Sweordoras

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - sweordoras

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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Sweordoras
pl. m. A people of Mercia occupying a district of three hundred hides:?-Sweordora þryú hund hýda (the name occurs in a list of districts in the land of the Mercians), Cod. Dip. B. i. 414, 21. [Mr. Birch suggests a connection with Swerford in Oxfordshire, and with the river Swere. Could the word contain as its second part the Celtic dwr = water, seen in many river names,

Related words: Taylor's Names and Places, p. 133, and mean the dwellers by the river Swere?] sweordoras

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