Saxon vs Athelstan - What's the difference?
saxon | athelstan |
A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians, about the year 600.
A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
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* 2005 , Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture , page 69:
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The language of the ancient Saxons.
(surname)
of modern usage, from the surname, or directly from the noun Saxon.
Of or relating to the Saxons.
Of or relating to Saxony.
Of or relating to the Saxon language.
(Ireland, poetic) English/British.
* Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
As an adjective saxon
is saxon.As a proper noun athelstan is
a saxon ruler from 895-939.saxon
English
(wikipedia Saxon)Noun
(en noun)- [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
- The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
- Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons , Berliners and others back in Leipzig.
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Adjective
(-)- SHANAGOLDEN (Song) Sean McCarthy 1973.