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Updated: May 3, 2025
Oxford was in Old English Oxenford, or "ford of the oxen." Towns whose names end in borough are often very old, but not so old as some of those ending in ham and ford. There were burhs in the first days of the English Conquest, but generally they were only single fortified houses and not villages.
"Down in the square," replied Oxenford, laconically. In truth there was a most unusual activity pervading the stronghold of the Doomsmen. Already the long rows of guard-huts were tenanted by a throng of women and children, and the number was being constantly reinforced by fresh arrivals.
There, amidst the people of Wessex who had rallied so often to his war cry, all that was mortal of the Ironside reposed. Meanwhile the crafty Edric, who excused himself from attendance on the solemnities, tarried at Oxenford, and with him tarried also Elfwyn, Herstan, and the other friends of the unfortunate prisoner, to secure, as they were able, that justice should be rendered him.
Oxenford confronted him. "The attack?" questioned Constans, and for the life of him could not help yawning prodigiously. Red Oxenford laughed. "In that case I should have pulled your ear off instead of wasting time shouting into it. By the thunders of God, man, but you sleep soundly." Constans was fully awake now. He glanced at the sun, which was high in the sky, and then at Oxenford's gaunt face.
It was decided, according to the wish he had more than once expressed, that he should rest beneath the shadow of a shrine he had loved well; and on the second day after his death the mournful procession left Oxenford for Glastonbury, followed by the tears and prayers of the citizens.
The great square was gradually filled, and the waving and pressure grew every moment stronger and more in motion, as the multitude always, if possible, endeavored to reach the spot where some new scene arose, and something particular was announced. Translated by John Oxenford. A year before the date of Oxenford's translation Parke Godwin of New York had published a translation.
"If he hold the herring he holds the scales, my sapient brother," cried the fat man. "But I pray you, good youth, to tell us whether you are a learned clerk, and, if so, whether you have studied at Oxenford or at Paris." "I have some small stock of learning," Alleyne answered, picking at his herring, "but I have been at neither of these places.
Andrew, and to take place at Oxenford, which had been assigned to Edmund's dominions; for he insisted that it should be celebrated with all the pomp the presence of a king could lend. It was now the season of the falling leaf and there were only a few weeks longer to wait. It was the latter end of November, and St.
Constans stood for an instant at Oxenford's ear. "The old wolf is nearly blind," he whispered. "Take care not to get between him and the light yonder and you have a chance." Oxenford nodded. His manner was quiet and collected, and his face, though pale, had lost the strained look that had characterized it for these last few days. "Stand clear!" he said, and Constans moved away and stood watching.
Then the other bar was sighted to point towards some heavenly body. Chaucer, in 1400, gave to his "litel Lowis my sone" an astrolabe calculated "after the latitude of Oxenford," and wrote a charming treatise to explain to him in English its use, "for Latin ne canstow yit but smal, my lyte sone."
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