[94] Paraphrased and amplified from the _Chronicle_.
[95] A tributary of the Nadder, which it joins near Wilton.
[96] Or, perhaps, ‘fewness,’ reading _paucitatem_ for _peraudacitatem_
(Stevenson).
[97] Mostly from the _Chronicle_.
[98] From the _Chronicle_.
[99] Chiefly from the _Chronicle_.
[100] In Derbyshire.
[101] Among the Germans there were Colonies (_Scholæ_) of the Frisians,
Franks, and Lombards, as well as of the Saxons.
[102] Now Santo Spirito in Sassia, near the Vatican.
[103] From the _Chronicle_.
[104] The valley of the Clyde.
[105] Here spelled Gothrum.
[106] From the _Chronicle_.
[107] Chiefly from the _Chronicle_.
[108] In Dorsetshire.
[109] Dorchester.
[110] For the usual Dornsæte.
[111] Here the _Chronicle_ has ‘on the holy arm-ring,’ on which the
Danes, it would seem, were accustomed to swear.
[112] Here the _Chronicle_ has: ‘They, the mounted army, stole away
from the fierd [the English forces] in the night into Exeter.’ This, of
course, is the true account, while the statement in Asser is incredible.
[113] Exe.
[114] From the _Chronicle_.
[115] See chap. 46.
[116] Largely from the _Chronicle_.
[117] At this point Archbishop Parker interpolated, from the _Annals
of St. Neots_, the story of Alfred and the cakes. This story, however,
cannot be proved to antedate the Norman Conquest.
[118] The first clause from the _Chronicle_; the rest original.
[119] Name unknown.
[120] Hingwar.
[121] Or South Wales. See chap. 80.
[122] Site unknown.
[123] Mostly from the _Chronicle_.
[124] In Somersetshire.
[125] Unknown.
[126] Or perhaps better, Iglea; see Stevenson’s note on the word,
p. 270 of his edition. He says: ‘It is probably an older name of
Southleigh Wood, or of part of it.’
[127] Based upon the _Chronicle_.
[128] In Wiltshire.
[129] Supplied by Stevenson from the _Chronicle_.
[130] Properly, as one of thirty, according to the _Chronicle_.
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