[northumbreis] (c.1136-37)
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[northumbreis] (c.1136-37)

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[ gdw]

[ FEW: ∅; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED:  Northumbrian n. and a.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
norhumbreis,  norhombreis;  northembreis,  northumbrois  

It must be assumed that this word was also used to refer to the inhabitants of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria (cf. Northumberland), but no such attestations have (yet) been found.

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1demonymNorthumbrian, inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Eissi ot nun li riche reis Qui regnat sur les Norhumbreis  1752
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  Icist (=Oswald) fud reis as Northembreis Sicum Edmund as Engleis  217
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Cel pais dit qu'il tendrat E des Bretons le defendrat Par la force des Daneis, Des Escoz, des Norhumbreis  5323
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Oswald fu des Norhombreis, Ceo dist l'estoire, et sire et reys  637
north  Northumberland  Northumbre 
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