Baptism, Christian, 81, 84, 114–115, 148; Baptism, Pagan, 78–79 and _n._; 91 (and _see_ “Prime-signing”) Bath, 184 Bedford, 53 Bergen, 89 Bergthora, w. of Nial, 157, 162, 168, 170, 172–73, 175 Bergthors-knoll, 166 Berkshire, E. of, 27 “Berserkin fury,” 72 and _n._ Bertric, King of Wessex, 12 Biorn, “the Eastman,” 6, 47–49, 50 Blacaire, Danish, Lord of Dublin, 120 “Bondes” or landowners, 88, 97, 98, 208, 242 “Book of Settlements,” 37 Brian Boru, King of Munster and Ireland, 135–142, 145, 148–152; his hardships, 136; King of Munster, 138; his beneficent reign, 139; his death at B. of Clontarf, 149–152 Britain, 6, 16 Brodir, a Viking, 146–147, 151–152 “Broad-cloth” Cruise, 245 Brunanburh, or Brumby, B. of, 60–77, 135 Burhred, King of Mercia, 22, 26, 29 Burial (in mounds), 41, 82, 89, 109; (ship-burials), 51, 90 Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, 198 Caithness, 5, 48, 108, 154, 158 Callaghan, King of Munster, 117, 119 Canterbury, 25, 183, 189 Cantyre, 238 Canute, or Knut, “the Great” (King of England and Denmark), 6, 32, 55, 179, 180, 185, 186, 191–210, 214–217, 218, 227 Carlingford Lough, 118 Christianity, 12, 66, 114–115, 146; forced upon Norway, 85–87, 100 Chronicles-- English Ch., 35 _n._, 60–61, 180, 192, 212; Ethelwerd’s Ch., 13 _n._; William of Malmesbury’s Ch., 30, 34, 54, 57, 59, 61; Asser’s “Life of Alfred the Great,” 23, 24 Clonmacnois, 45 Clontarf, B. of, 114, 116, 135, 148–156 Conang, nephew of King Brian, 141 Connaught, 119, 135 Constantine, King of the Scots, 59, 60 Cornwall, 57–58 Cumberland, 57 Dane’s, first arrival of, 11–13; Conquests and Settlements, 5, 22, 25–27, 29, 46, 60–61, 111, 135, 179, 182, 184, 186, 187, 217–218; called “Dark Foreigners,” 47 Danegeld, 179–180, 152, 225 Danish Kings, 6, 31, 179, 180, 186, 191, 198–199, 208, 209, 211–213, 217, 218, 219, 235 Danish Kings of Dublin and Northumbria, 6, 14, 29, 46–47, 58–59, 93, 118–119 Death-Song (of Raynor Lodbrog), 20, 21 Denmark, 31, 39, 40, 87, 123, 179, 191, 203, 209, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220 Derby, 53 Devon, 22, 30 Donagh, King of Ireland, 118, 120 Donovan, Munster Chief, 137 Dorchester, 13 Downpatrick, 242 Dublin, 19, 46, 96, 116, 117, 118, 142, 145, 148, 239, 245–47 East Anglia, 22, 27, 32, 38, 183, 189, 193, 194 Eddington, B. of, 31 Edgar, King of England, 179; laws of, 198 Editha, w. of Edward the Confessor, 223, 224 Edmund “the Martyr,” King of E. Anglia, 185, 198 Edmund, b. of Athelstan, King of England, 61, 170 Edmund “Ironside,” 194, 225 Edric, Lord, of Mercia, 183, 194 Edward the Ætheling, 225 Edward “the Confessor,” King of England, 185, 212, 217, 219, 221–225, 226–227 Edward “the Elder,” 33, 38, 52–54 Edwy, King of England, 179