What is "salian"

Usage examples of "salian".

They were all Salian or western border lords, it seemed: Guy, Laurant, Amalfred, Gaius, Mainer, Baldricus, Ernalda.

According to Da, she had spoken Salian and Aostan as a child, but she had long since forgotten them.

What if this black-haired Salian girl was his mother, and the shade in the ruins truly his father?

Perhaps the child was sent to Varre to be raised with his intended bride, hidden in plain sight, the Emperor's grandson who by reason of his birth to one of the emperor's daughters could never con tend for the Salian throne.

A poet trained in the court chapel of the Salian king sang from a lengthy poem celebrating the virtues and fame of the great emperor, Taillefer, he who had risen from the kingship of Salia to the imperial crown of Darre.

Yeshu spoke his tortured mother tongue as well as Alban, Wendish, and Salian.

But in the Salian tradition only men are allowed to be sovereign, and their women queen consort, not more than that.

Roses, War of the, 542, 548 end of, 743 Ross (Macbeth), 159 Ross (Richard II), 285 Rotherham, Thomas, 704 Rouen, 243, 569 English capture of, 512 French recapture of, 555, 562 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 13 Russia, 83 Rutland, Edmund, Earl of, 635 S Sack, 329 Sackerson, 426 Sahara Desert, 297 Saint Albans, 584 first battle of, 618, 621, 667, 692 second battle of, 642, 643, 652 Saint Bartholomew's Day, 234 Saint David's Day, 491 Saint George's Day, 559 Saint Martin's Summer, 533 Saint Patrick's Day, 491 Sala River, 454 Salian Franks, 454 Salic Law, 255, 454 Salisbury, Joan, Countess of, 446 .

A perfect example of a singular succession worked out by the fiction of kinship is to be found in the story of Burnt Njal, an Icelandic saga, which gives us a living picture of a society hardly more advanced than the Salian Franks, as we see them in the Lex Salica.