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Iclingas
/itʃliŋɣas /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Masculine
Iclingas
; pl. The name of a Mercian family to which St. Guthlac belonged :-- Hé was ðæs yldestan and ðæs æðelstan cynnes ðe Iclingas wǽron genemnede he [Guthlac's father] was of that chiefest and noblest race that were called Iclings, Guthl. 1 ; Gdwin. 8, 4. [Icelingtun (Ickleton in Cambridgeshire?) occurs Cod. Dipl. Kmbl, iv. 300, 24; and there is Icklingham in Suffolk.]
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. Add: The original Latin describing Guthlac's family is: Hujus viri progenies per nobilissima illustrium regum nomma antiqua ab origine ICLES digesto ordine cucurrit. Icel is mentioned in Mercian royal genealogies :-- Cnebba wæs Iceling, Icel Eámǽring, Chr. 626; P. 24, 11 : 755; P. 50. 6. Cnebba Icling, [Ic]il Eámǽring, Txts. 170, 93.See Chadwick's Origin of the English Nation s. v. [The name occurs in a charter :-- On Icæles ǽwilnias tó Æðelbrihtes mearce, C. D. iii. 130, 33.]
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