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plural Mercians
(historical) A native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. quotations
And comming forth shall spred his banner brave / Over the troubled South, that it shall make / The warlike Mertians for feare to quake […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
The dialect of Old English spoken in Mercia. examples
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Of, from or relating to Mercia. examples