For one thing, we might be rash if we denied that during that miserable tenth century both the population and the wealth of Wessex were declining, for, despite its Æthelstan and Edgar, a miserable time it was.
Among them is a charter professing to come from Æthelstan which bestows 'one manse' upon the church of St. Buryan; but clearly this one manse is a wide tract.
Soon after, however, Sihtric died, and Æthelstan made himself first king of all England by adding Northumbria to his own immediate dominions.
The under-king Æthelstan fell upon them with his new navy, and took nine of their ships, putting the rest to flight with great slaughter.
The confederates met the West Saxon fyrd or levy at an unknown spot named Brunanburh, where Æthelstan overthrew them in a crushing defeat, which forms the subject of a fine war-song, inserted in full in the English Chronicle.
Three years later Æthelstan died, as his father had died before him, undisputed over-lord of all Britain, and immediate king of the whole Teutonic portion.
Dread of the northmen had drawn Scot and Cumbrian to their acknowledgement of Eadward's overlordship, but Æthelstan no sooner incorporated Northumbria with his dominions than dread of Wessex took the place of dread of the Danelaw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thelstan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
