Ethelwulf

/ ˈɛθəlˌwʊlf; ˈæθəlˌwʊlf /

noun

1. Ethelwulf858MEnglishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler died 858 ad , king of Wessex (839–858)

Example Sentences

Then took Alfred, son of Ethelwulf to the West Saxon's kingdom; and that after one month fought Alfred king against all the army with a little band at Wilton, and them long during the day routed and then the Danes obtained of the battle-field possession.

From Literature

"My lord," he said, "this thing to which the witness swears is a gold piece of Ethelwulf of Wessex, by far the commonest and cheapest gold coin of the whole Anglo-Saxon period."

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Could she read the inscription on that coin now produced?—handing her the Ethelwulf.

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Then the counsel for the Crown handed her again the genuine Wulfric, and asked her whether the letters upon it which she professed to have read were or were not similar to those of the Ethelwulf.

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I had bought a common Anglo-Saxon coin, probably an Ethelwulf, valued at about twenty-two shillings, from the old Lichfield ploughman.

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