[3] "It was twenty-six feet high, and had inscribed on it these names, and two others, Bregored and Beorward. Centwine became King of the West Saxons, and Hedde, Bishop of Winchester, in A.D. 676; the former became a monk in A.D. 683, the latter died in A.D. 705. Bregored was an Abbot of Glastonbury (but not in the times of the Britons, as William of Malmsbury concluded from his name, for it is clearly Saxon), and Beorward may be the Abbot Beornwald who attested a charter of Ine in A.D. 704. The larger pyramid, twenty-eight feet high, which stood at the head of the grave, is said to have been in a very ruinous condition, and the only intelligible words in the inscription upon it (as given by William of Malmsbury), are the names of Wulfred and Eanfled. The discovery of these trunk coffins at Glastonbury has not been noticed by Mr. Wright, in his account of the similar discoveries at Gristhorpe, Beverley, Driffield, and Selby (_Gent. Mag._ 1857. vol. ii. p. 114), nor by Mr. Wylie in his paper on the Oberflacht graves (_Archæologia_, vol. xxxvi., p. 129), but deserves to be mentioned in connection with them." [4] The Rev. E. Sibson says:--"A piece of high ground near the Scholes is called King Arthur's camp."--_Man. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Transactions, April_, 1845. [5] Giving a man "wigan," in the present vernacular of the county, is synonymous to giving him a good threshing. Jacob Grimm, in his "Deutsche Mythologie," says the Old High German _wig_, pugna, seems occasionally to denote the personal god of war. The modern English word "vie," to contend, to fight, to strive for superiority, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon _wigian_, _wiggan_, which are cognate to the Gothic _veigan_ (Collins's Dic. Der.) _Wig_, war, warfare, battle (Bosworth, A.S. Dic.) [6] The district referred to is variously written _Linuis_, _Cinuis_, and _Inniis_. [7] Nennius calls him "Catgublaun, king of Guenedot," Gwynedd, North Wales. [8] Anglo-Saxon Chron. and Bede. [9] Dr. Giles, Mr. Green, and others, say--"Hatfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about seven miles to the north-east of Doncaster," and this seems the most probable site. [10] Variation, Brocmail.