Fǣmneland

**Fǣmneland** (; ) oþþe **Firginiæ** is ān þāra frumra 13 rīca þāra Geānlǣhtra Rīca þe ongēan Brytta geƿealde ūpārās on þǣre American Oferƿeorpennesse. Hēo biþ gemǣnelice geteald tō dǣle þæs Sūðdǣles.  His ambihtlica nama is þæt **Gemǣngestrēon Fǣmnelande**; hēo is ān fēoƿer Gemǣngestrēona of þǣm fīftig Geānlǣhtum Rīcum.

Centuccīge and Ƿestfǣmlande ƿǣron dǣlas Fǣmneland æt þǣre tīde þǣre staðelunge þāra Geānlǣhtra Rīca, ac se ǣrra ƿearþ underfangen in þā Geānlǣcunge sƿā sundorrīce in 1792 and se ōðer oþbærst of Fǣmnelande in þǣm Americaniscan Ingefeohte.

Fǣmneland is gecƿeden "Foresittenda Mōdor" for þǣm þe ƿǣron mā U.S. Foresittendra (8) on þissum rīce geboren þonne on ǣnigum ōðrum. Fīf þāra ƿǣron geedcoren tō ōðerre ambihttīde: Georgius Hƿæsingatūn, Þomas Gefferson, Iames Mædeȳsūn, Iames Monroe, ond Ƿoodroƿ Ƿilson. Þā ōðre Fǣmnelande Foresittend sindon Ƿillames Heanrig Harrieson, Iohannes Tylier, ond Zachariah Taillour.

## Stǣr
Betwēonan Gewīnlandisc folce wunigende on þǣre stōwe þe nū Fǣmneland is, wǣron þā Powhatan, Nottawæġ, Meherrin, Pohicæ, Monacan, Saponi, and Ceorauuī.

On ende þǣre 16th centurie þāra Engla ongunnon tō becuman Norðland Amerīcā, "Fǣmneland
" wæs sēo noma þe Hlǣfdīg Elizabeth I of England (þe wæs gehāten sēo "Gemeowlige Hlǣfdīg" for þā þe hēo nǣfre nǣnne hūsbonde næfde) tō wiðencan þāre eallan stōwe þe þǣre 1584 fēran Þānes Walter Raleigh be þǣre nēowolcēast. Se Lunden Fǣmneland Scīrung wæs ġeworden sēo ǣresta þurh þæs cyninges ċartan þe gesceapen wæs on April 10, 1606. Hēo hrǣdlice fēondode þā ǣreste ǣcende Engliscan setlunge in þǣre Nīwan Wīsan þe wæs æt Gēmestūne on þǣre Fǣmneland Ġerēfaþēod on 1607. Hīo ǣfterlīc wæs hālgod on May 23, 1609.

Fǣmneland wæs gehāten his byname "Þæt Ēalda Rīce" fram Cyninge Charles II of England on þǣre ācennednes tīd æt þǣre Hwīle for þām þe hit gelēofode þā crūna bēon hālig wiðinnan þǣre Engliscan Cynewīsan Gēard on þǣre Engliscan Cynewīsan Gēardiscre Gūðe. Patrick Henry wæs sēo ǣresta Gerefa Fǣmnelandes fram 1776 oð 1779, and ēft fram 1784 oð 1786. On June 12, 1776, se Fǣmneland Ġeþēod underfēng þone Fǣmneland Rīhtsǣd þæt wæs handgewitod fram Bill of Rights þe wæs æfterfērend tō þǣre Gemǣnan Rīces Gescōdnesse. On June 29, 1776, þæt gemynd þing underfēng ēac ā setnys þe gesētte Fǣmneland swā þæt hit wǣre gemǣneð þām Ċynewīse swīðe tōbryrd of þǣre Brintiscan Rīce. On 1790 begeondan Fǣmneland and Mǣrcland forgeafan land tō wyrcenne Distric of Columbia, ac on āne ċyninglican setnys fram 9. Hlūdmōnað 1846, þæt land þe fram Fǣmnelande wæs forgifen, wæs ġeafniged, and nū is Arlingtonscīr and dǣl þǣre Burgum of Alaxceaster."

Fǣmneland is ān of þām lēodum þe of þǣre Þēodwīsan geswicon tō wīcennenne þone Gemyndrīce under þǣre Civil War. Þā þæt dyde, sume scīrunga wurdon ġetreoȝode swā Westfǣmland, sēo wæs ġebunden þurh þā Þā Unīedrīce Gemyndrīcē Rīce set 1870 Fǣmneland rǣdlice ġeǣned tō þǣre Þēodwīsan on January 26, 1870, æfter ānre fǣrlican tīde þǣre æfterwīgescipes mīlitiscan rīcere.

On January 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder wearþ sēo fruma Āfroamerices biscop ealles US rīces þæt tō þǣre Wīgescīpu þegnode, þā þā hē wæs gecoren tō Gerefan Fǣmnelande.

### Wiðercweðu

Fǣmnelandum ǣwisc hæfð leng bēon hēalden swā ān þā beteran ġewihteðelum on þǣre Gemǣnan Rīce mid manigfealdum innfeondum, þæt is, forþmǣt þā mīlitrīgan onwealdan gesamnodon on þǣre Hāmptūn Rodas stōwe, tæbaccu and hrēawena æcerbrēowung swā þēah swā swā þurh Sūþsið Fǣmneland, wǣre and ǣrende, and Norðerne Fǣmneland þǣre bēdhwǣlmbyrig tō þǣre rīciscan rīce and his bǣron. Mǣstes dǣles Fǣmnelande is on innan 11 Mǣþlīce Gereordnes Būm.

### Gelyfedǣd
Þā gelyfetdǣda gegēara Fǣmnelandburga sind:

*Protestanctēaw – 74%
*Rōmānisc Crīsten – 12%
*Ōðer Crīsten – 2%
*Ōðer lēohtwīgendōm – 2%
*Unlēohtwīgend – 7%

Þā þrīo mǣstan Protestanctēawas on Fǣmnelande: Baptisc (31% þæs gesāmnyssan landes folces), Mǣðodisc (13%), Presbiterisc (4%).

## Miscegenlīc ġecwissnes

* Lands ġecwyssa: "Sic semper tyrannis." (Þus ā āweg mid þēodþrēowum.)
* Lands bridd: Rēadhēafod
* Lands docga: Americisc Foxhound
* Lands blōma: Dogwudu
* Lands trēow: Dogwudu
* Lands insecga: Eastlandisc Tīger Swaluw-stybb
* Lands sang: *nān*; sē ǣrra lands sang, "Ċarian mē Bæc tō Eald Virginian," wæs ġeswīced for rāsiscum wordum on 1997.
* USS ''Fǣmneland'' wæs genemned on wuldre þisse landes.

Fǣmneland is sēo lǣsta ǣ on þǣre landes cyneƿises, þā on 1916, þæt heora yrðlinges stefna wæs tō dǣlan.

## Ōðere stedas

Þā sind ēac stedas þe hāttaþ **Fǣmneland** þāra Rica Illinois and Minnesota: sēo
* Fǣmneland on Illinoise.
* Fǣmneland on Minnesotan.

## Ūtanƿearde bindas
* Underrīces Lēodƿearde ƿebbstede
* Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh : 1584 
* The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606 
* The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609 
* The Third Charter of Virginia; March 12, 1611 
* U.S. Census Bureau