Old English · proper noun
Carr
- Part of speech
- proper noun, masculine
- Modern English
- charmouth
Meaning
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Charmouth (a village in Dorset, England)
An. DCCCXXXIII Hēr ġefeaht Eċġbriht cing wið XXXV sċiphlæsta æt Carrum ⁊ þǣr wearð myċel wæl ġesleġen, ⁊ þā Denisċan āhton wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ Hereferð ⁊ Wīġþeġn, twēġen bisċeopas, forðfērdan, ⁊ Duda ⁊ Ōsmōd, twēġen ealdormenn, forðfērdon.
Year 833 In this year King Edgebright fought against thirty-five shiploads of men at Charmouth, and many were slain, and the Danes took control of the battlefield. And two bishops, Herefrith and Wigthegn, and two aldermen, Duda and Osmod, died.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -
Carhampton (a village in Somerset, England)
An. DCCCXL Hēr Æþelwulf cing ġefeaht æt Carrum wið XXXV sċiphlæsta, ⁊ þā Denisċan āhton wælstōwe ġeweald. Year 840 (perhaps rather 836) In this year King Æthelwulf fought at Carhampton against thirty-five shiploads of men, and the Danes took control of the battlefield.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Etymology
From carr.
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