Mercian was a dialect spoken in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia (roughly speaking the Midlands of England, an area in which four kingdoms had been united...

scholars who have studied and promoted the Mercian dialect of Old English and introduced various Mercian terms into his legendarium – especially in relation...

and historian Mercian Brigade, an historic unit in the British Army Mercian Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer Mercian dialect, a dialect of Old English...

Anglo-Saxon tradition, poetry, and linguistics, specifically in its Mercian dialect, in everything but its use of horses. Tolkien used Old English for...

tongue [...] the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the...

The three others were Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian (the latter two were similar and are known as the Anglian dialects). West Saxon was the language...

Saruman (pronounced [ˈsɑrumɑn]) means "man of skill or cunning" in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon; he serves as an example of technology and modernity...

Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of...

the modern English language (which is more closely related to the Mercian dialect). Old English had a distinction between short and long (doubled) consonants...

Mercians were prominent at the courts of Alfred and Edward, and the Mercian dialect and scholarship commanded West Saxon respect. It is uncertain how far...

conquest. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, and West Saxon. It was...

Anglian dialect underlying the West Saxon translation of the texts. Any definite conclusion to Cynewulf being either Northumbrian or Mercian has been...

rendering: Rohirric, the language of Rohan (related to Westron) by the Mercian dialect of Old English names in the tongue of Dale by Old Norse forms names...

is offered. The name Saruman means "man of skill or cunning" in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon; he serves as an example of technology and modernity...

rendering: Rohirric, the language of Rohan (related to Westron) by the Mercian dialect of Old English names in the tongue of Dale by Old Norse forms names...

were actually the Anglo-Saxons, though he had made them speak the Mercian dialect of that language. In a book, Drout states, there can be ambiguity about...

southwest. All of these dialects have direct descendants in modern England. Standard English developed from the Mercian dialect, as it was predominant...

the Ormulum, Havelock the Dane, and Thomas of Hales's Love Rune. The Mercian dialect thrived between the 8th and 13th centuries and was referred to by John...

the river is Mercian in origin, with origins in the East Midlands dialects, whilst that to the northeast, like Geordie, the Cumbrian dialect and the Scots...

area (English Midlands) where the Mercian dialect was spoken. (Mercian itself was a subdialect of the Anglian dialect, which was spoken across all of Central...

southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian...

of the Riders of Rohan, Rohirric, to be "translated" again as the Mercian dialect of Old English which he knew well. This set up a relationship something...

English derives from the Old English Mercian dialects, the West Country dialects derive from the West Saxon dialect,[which?] which formed the earliest English...

gloss in Old English, which probably derives from an exemplar in the Mercian dialect. Other texts include: Against a dwarf Cockayne, O. (ed.). 1864–66....

rendering: Rohirric, the language of Rohan (related to Westron) by the Mercian dialect of Old English names in the tongue of Dale by Old Norse forms names...

Patrologia Latina of J. P. Migne. Part of it was paraphrased in the West Mercian dialect of Middle English by the author of the Katherine Group. Various other...

led to the English spoken nearby, which was largely derived from the Mercian dialect of Old English, to become the standard written form, rather than that...

Skinner). Problems playing this file? See media help. The Black Country dialect is spoken by many people in the Black Country, a region covering most of...

Midlands pronunciation The Eastern Midlands dialect of ME results from a mixture of the OE Mercian dialect and the ON of the Danelaw, with an overlay of...

preserved in the Nowell Codex. The original translation was in the Mercian dialect, but the surviving version is West Saxon. A separate Middle English...