Definition of Salian frank

1. Noun. A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD.

Exact synonyms: Salian
Generic synonyms: Frank

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salian Frank

Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
Salah al-Din Battalions
Salamanca
Salamandra atra
Salamandra maculosa
Salamandra salamandra
Sale
Salekhard
Salem
Salento
Salerno
Salesian
Salesians
Salford
Salian
Salian Frank
Salians
Salic
Salic law
Salicaceae
Salicales
Salicornia
Salicornia europaea
Salientia
Salii
Salim
Salina
Salinan
Salinans
Salinas

Literary usage of Salian frank

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lex Salica: The Ten Texts with the Glosses, and the Lex Emendata by Hendrik Kern (1880)
"If Hucbald had been a salian frank by birth, he would hardly have failed to recognize the Frankish Icti. ..."

2. Handbook of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1875)
"At any rate, it makes the difference between a Salian, Frank and a Saxon of the Lower Khine little more than nominal. The Frank dialects of which we have ..."

3. The Franks, from Their Origin as a Confederacy to the Establishment of the by Lewis Sergeant (1898)
"salian frank, to German warriors and settlers in a zone extending from the mouths of the Rhine to the Roman ramparts, thence along the banks of the Main and ..."

4. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"The Salic law fixes the wergeld of a salian frank at two hundred solidi, that of the Roman at one hundred only. But we must not conclude from this that ..."

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