In The Hobbit, the Anglo-Saxon futhorc was used in the publication with few changes ; in The Lord of the Rings a new system of runes, the Cirth, was devised.

In the Nordic System of labour market regulation, the government ’ s legislative role is limited in the same way as in the Anglo-Saxon system.

However, in contrast to the countries in the Anglo-Saxon system category, this is a much more widespread network of collective agreements, which covers most industries and most firms.

The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.

The system was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century, along with West Saxon political control.

Early Middle English ( 1100 – 1300 ) has a largely Anglo-Saxon vocabulary ( with many Norse borrowings in the northern parts of the country ), but a greatly simplified inflectional system.

Patrick Wormald, who has argued that written law had little practical use in Anglo-Saxon England, states that there is little homogeneity to the laws, and that the sporadic nature of them indicate little sign of a coherent system based on written law.

' During the Middle Ages, most would not regard an insult or injury as settled until it was avenged, or, at the least, paid for — hence, the extensive Anglo-Saxon system of wergild ( literally, " man-price ") payments, which placed a certain monetary value upon certain acts of violence in an attempt to limit the spiral of revenge by codifying the responsibility of a malefactor.

A confusion may arise with the Anglo-Norman dizeyne ( French dixaine or dizaine ) a tithing, or group of ten households ( See Oxford English Dictionary, meaning # 4 )-dating from the late Anglo-Saxon system of grouping households into tens and hundreds for the purposes of law, order and mutual surety ( see Tithing ).

Following the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror continued the Anglo-Saxon coinage system.

In Anglo-Saxon England, a different system was used to achieve similar ends, and was known as the fyrd.

A system of elective monarchy existed in Anglo-Saxon England ( see Witenagemot ), the Kingdom of Hawaii, Visigothic Spain, and medieval Scandinavia and in the Principality of Transylvania.

The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United States, or provincial or state supreme courts.

India's independent judicial system began under the British, and its concepts and procedures resemble those of Anglo-Saxon countries.

24 August 2011 < http :// www. oxfordreference. com / views / ENTRY. html? subview = Main & entry = t45. e945 ></ ref > The origins of the lordship of manors arose in the Anglo-Saxon system of manorialism.

The Sudanese kinship system also existed in ancient Latin-speaking and Anglo-Saxon cultures.

Anglo-Saxon mints were tightly controlled by the kings, providing a high quality currency, and the whole country was taxed using a system called hidage.

The Anglo-Saxon authorities struggled to deal with the bloodfeuds between families that emerged following violent killings, attempting to use a system of weregild, a payment of blood money, as a way of providing an alternative to long-running vendettas.

In many areas of society there was continuity, as the Normans adopted many of the Anglo-Saxon governmental institutions, including the tax system, mints and the centralisation of law-making and some judicial matters ; initially sheriffs and the hundred courts continued to function as before.

This system had been used in Normandy and concentrated more power in the king and the upper elite than the former Anglo-Saxon system of government.

The Norman conquest brought a new set of Norman and French churchmen to power ; some adopted and embraced aspects of the former Anglo-Saxon religious system, while others introduced practices from Normandy.

This is an example of the organisation of the Anglo-Saxon church into minsters with their own parochia known as the minster system.

In the Anglo-Saxon world, the wis had wisdom due to their wit – their ability to conciliate and mediate by maintaining multiple perspectives, which has degenerated into a species of comedy, but was not always a mere laughing matter.

Subjects of an Anglo-Saxon king were required to yield three services: bridge-bote ( repairing bridges and roads ), burgh-bote ( building and maintaining fortifications ), and fyrd-bote ( serving in the militia, known as the fyrd ).

He also believed in British Israelism, an ideology maintaining that the Anglo-Saxon peoples were the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

A later tradition called him Beauclerc for his scholarly interests — he could read Latin and put his learning to effective use — and Lion of Justice for refinements which he brought about in the royal administration, which he rendered the most effective in Europe, rationalizing the itinerant court, and his public espousal of the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.

" So I trust that a critical public will hold constantly in mind that I am voluntarily avoiding words containing that symbol which is, by far, of most common inclusion in writing our Anglo-Saxon as it is, today.

He led a liberal economic policy inspired by Anglo-Saxon examples, selling a lot of public companies, abolishing the wealth tax.

An Anglo-Saxon jeweled bead was found in Forest Gate in 1875 during sewer construction behind the Princess Alice public house in the Sprowston Road area.

While the idea of a populace policing itself dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, with English Common Law requiring that all citizens have the legal obligation to come to the assistance of a police officer, it was not until 1673, when Charles II ruled that citizens may be temporarily sworn in as constables during times of public disorder.

However, the other side of the river was known by the Anglo-Saxon name, Thetford ( public ford ), a name retained in Thetford House.

However those that can present a sizable body of work, listed here in descending order of quantity: sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations ; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers ; Anglo-Saxon chronicles and narrative history works ; laws, wills and other legal works ; practical works on grammar, medicine, geography ; and poetry.

Godiva (, " god gift "), often referred to as Lady Godiva, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.

Additional onomastic arguments have been used to connect Dingesmere ( a location associated with the battle in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ) with Thingwall on Merseyside in order to strengthen the Brunanburh-Bromborough link.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Her cognomen ' of Northampton ' is attached to her in Manuscript D of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in order to distinguish her from Emma of Normandy, and consequently adopted by later historians such as John of Worcester.

In their poems, especially the rich illustrations, actual Norse elements would be mixed with, for instance Nordic Bronze Age, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Era elements in order to create a modern mythology of the past.

In order to evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages, including Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit.

Many of the Anglo-Saxon nobles lost lands and titles ; the lesser thegns and others found themselves lower down the social order than previously.

In the 13th century, the area was known as Scadflet and Shatfliet – derived from the Anglo-Saxon fleot, meaning a shallow creek or bay – the land was a low lying marsh, until drained ( by order of Act of Parliament, after 1587 ) by Cornelius Vanderdelf.

The Professional Titles in Peru are equivalent to the first professional degrees in the Anglo-Saxon countries, therefore if a person obtained a Master in Counselling degree in the US will need to complete the university studies in Peru in order to obtain the Licenciate or Title of Psychologist and then the Licensure at the Colegio de Psicólogos del Perú.

Some people sold themselves to powerful landowners in order to receive protection, work and food ; one Anglo-Saxon will has a land-owner freeing those slaves who had " given her their heads for food.

The Danes under Cnut the Great also constructed a town ditch in order to control access to the city .< ref >< cite > The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Earle and Plummer </ ref > The ditch was redug in 1211 as a part of the defences, and was then about in width.

Godiva or Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.