Battle Of Brunanburh

  

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Battle Of Brunanburh

Definition: Battle Of Brunanburh

Battle Of Brunanburh

Noun

1. Battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots; recounted in the Ballad of the Battle of Brunanburh in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

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Synonym: Battle Of Brunanburh

Synonym: Brunanburh (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Battle of Brunanburh

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Battle of Brunanburh was a West Saxon victory in 937 by the army of king Athelstan and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf, viking king of Dublin and Constantine, king of Scotland. The location of this battle has not yet been identified.

Our chief source for the details of this battle come from the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Battle of Brunanburh."

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Crosswords: Battle Of Brunanburh

English words defined with "battle of Brunanburh": Brunanburh. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: Battle Of Brunanburh


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 74 74 6C 65      4F 66      42 72 75 6E 61 6E 62 75 72 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01000010 01110010 01110101 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100010 01110101 01110010 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#116 &#116 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#66 &#114 &#117 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#98 &#117 &#114 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0074 0074 006C 0065      004F 0066      0042 0072 0075 006E 0061 006E 0062 0075 0072 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36678686787124972236848780678068878474

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4. Orthography
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