they victualled from throughout the English nation."--Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bohn's Edition. xiii This is copied almost verbatim from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. xiv The account is taken almost verbatim from Florence of Worcester. xv Children of Ethelred. By his two wives--(1) Aelfleda--(2) Emma, Ethelred had fourteen children, of whom only four or five have been mentioned in this narrative, or are of importance to the student--Edmund Ironside and his brother Edwy (chapter 25), by Aelfleda, and Alfred and Edward by Emma--the last well known in history as Edward the Confessor, and introduced in Chapter XIX. of this tale. The following genealogical table from Edgar to the children of Edmund may be of use. It will be remembered that the lineage of the present royal house passes through the last-named son of Edmund Ironside to Egbert: Edgar * Edward the Martyr, d. 979. * Ethelred the Unready, d. 1016. + Edmund Ironside, 1016. o Edmund. o Edward, who became the great-grandfather of Henry the Second. + Edwy. + Elgitha. + Alfred, 1036. + Edward the Confessor, 1066. xvi Sceorstan. Antiquarians differ much about the site of this famous battle. Sharp thinks it was near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, and Thorpe, in his notes to "Florence of Worcester," says--"May not Chimney be the spot, a hamlet in Oxfordshire, in the parish of Bampton-in-the-Bush, near the edge of Gloucestershire, the name of Chimney being merely a translation, introduced after the Norman Conquest, of Sceorstan, which may probably have owed its origin to a Saxon house or hall, conspicuous for having a chimney when that luxury was of rare occurrence?" Others say that Sceorstan was not in Anglo-Saxon "a chimney," but "a graven stone," and make the site that of a boundary stone, still separating the four counties of Oxford, Gloucester, Worcester, and Warwick, near Chipping Norton. Bosworth says it is Sherston in Wilts. xvii Single Combat between Edmund and Canute. The following account is from Roger of Wendover: