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    described by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a "Great Heathen Army" (OE: mycel hæþen here or mycel heathen here). Historians provide varying estimates for the size...
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    ἔργον érgon ورز varz *werǵ- "to work" մեծ mec "big, great" much ( ← OE mycel "great, big, many") magnus μέγας mégas مه، مهست meh, mahest मह maha много...
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    Middlebrook along its entire length as early references mention the Mikelbrok, (mycel and broc), the great stream but not the Croal. It meets the Irwell at Nob...
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    in Matt. i-iii, child, chyld, riche, and mychel, for the cild, rice, and mycel of the Old English version whence they were copied. In these cases, the...
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  • initial army was reinforced in 871 by the Great Summer Army (Old English: mycel sumorlida). Guthrum, a nephew of Horik II of Denmark and a failed candidate...
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    fyrenne dracan wæron gesewene on þam lifte fleogende. Þam tacnum sona fyligde mycel hunger, ⁊ litel æfter þam, þæs ilcan geares on .vi. Idus Ianuarii, earmlice...
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  • *medʰyo- mēǰ "middle" mes, mjet "in between, middle" *meǵ- "big" much (< OE myc̣el "big, many") mikils "big" magnus "big" mégas "big" máha-, mahā́nt- "big"...
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    English middel "middle" and tun "farm". Instead, the name is from Old English mycel "large (compare "much")" + tun "farm". The name was recorded as Micletone...
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    landed in East Anglia. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described this force as the mycel hæþen here (Great Heathen Army) and went on to say that it was led by Ivar...
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    Exeter (the precursor to the later cathedral) is one famously described as i mycel Englisc boc be gehwilcum þingum on leoð-wisan geworht: "one large English...
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