Sercingas

Old English Etymology Uncertain. Possibly from ang la Serica an empire in East Asia or the la Siracī tribe mentioned by Tacitus. Compare non Serkland Arabia, the Middle East. Pronunciation Sercingas Proper noun m ang hapax disputed, but traditionally interpreted as Saracens Widsith: ang Mid Sercingum iċ wæs ond mid Seringum;mid Crēacum iċ wæs ond midFinnum ond mid Cāseresē þe wīnburga ġeweald āhte... I was with the Sercings and with the SeringsI was with the Greeks and I was withthe Finns and with Caesar,he who had power over feasting-towns... Usage notes Only attested in the dative plural ang Sercingum. Possibly identical in meaning to ang Seringas. Further reading en Hill, Joyce "Widsið" and the Tenth Century https://www.jstor.org/stable/43343599?seq=1 Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 1985 85 3 305-315 ang Ethnonyms