The set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between the English Alfred the Great and the Danish Guthrum the Old
The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons
NE region of Anglo-Saxon England. Colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century AD, it was so named because the form of customary law practiced in the local courts was of Danish origin. Danish place-names still mark the region
body of laws created by Danish invaders and settlers in northeastern England during the 9th and 10th centuries; the part of England under these laws; dane law, danelagh