Meaning of cyning | Babel Free

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An Anglo-Saxon (early English) king.

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“The firſt cynings of the Anglo Saxons ſeem to have⟳ been their war-kings, continued for life, and the crown was not hereditary, but elective.”

“To write⟳ the history of the numerous Gypsy dynasties in the British Isles, from the somewhat mythical days of Johnnie Faa to the demise of the last⟳ of his royal house who claimed and bore the royal title, would be a more difficult task than to trace and verify the genealogy of the petty cynings and bretwaldas of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy up to Hengist, Horsa, and Ida, and thence back to Thor and Odin.”

“Then Saxon cynings ruled, with various fortune, / Six centuries; ( fighting ofttimes, king against king.)”

“According to the public record⟳, a dispute over some action of Iamor’s—Scotty had a good idea what action that was—had split⟳ the party asunder, meaning no one was able to achieve⟳ the majority in the Witenagemot necessary to create⟳ a functioning government. Unfortunately, one of the planet’s many provincial cynings had taken advantage of the lull in authority to revive a long-standing grudge with another cyning, weapons had been fired, and any chance of a unified Kropasar reemerging had died in the ensuing chaos.”

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