[Footnote I-6: Cf. Stimming. Review of Wissmann’s ed. of K. H. Engl. Stud. i, 357 ff.] [Footnote I-7: The author of H. C. endeavours to be realistic. There are no more vague terms, like _Sarazins_, etc. Further, there is a parallelism with the story of Harold, suggesting that this version has been influenced by historical events.] § 3. ELEMENTS OF THE STORY. The story of Horn, it is generally believed, had its origin in the turbulent times of the Danish invasions, but the kernel of genuine historical tradition is probably small. How the different elements in such a story aggregate, we can plainly see in the case of the _Hereward_: “The writer of the life of Hereward,” according to Wright, “had, among other sources of information, the work of the presbyter, Leofric, Hereward’s archdeacon. This Leofric, he tells us, occupied himself in collecting for the edification of his hearers, all the acts of the giants and warriors from the fables of the ancients, or, in the instance of more modern heroes, from the trustworthy relations of those who had known them, and in writing them in English that they might be preserved in people’s memories.” In this way grew the _Hereward_ story, and in a similar manner, we may suppose, that the story of Horn attracted to itself many new and foreign elements, receiving its development and final form probably at the hands of the _jongleurs_, or gleemen, whom we are to think of as wandering widely and gathering romantic material from the most remote regions.