were either honourable or profitable, and were by him alienated in favour of his lay or clerical favourites. ----- Footnote 84: Cnut, ii. § 12. Thorpe, i. 382. Footnote 85: Cnut, ii. § 14. Thorpe, i. 384. Footnote 86: Cnut, ii. § 15. Thorpe, i. 384. ----- TREASURE TROVE.—The first of these is Treasure-trove, which was, in all probability, of considerable importance and value: it is designated in Anglosaxon charters by the words “ealle hordas búfan eorðan and binnan eorðan,” and frequently occurs in the grants to monastic houses. In very early and heathen periods various causes combined to render the burial of treasure common. It was a point of honour to carry as much wealth with one from this world to the next as possible; and it was a recognized duty of the comites and household of a chief to sacrifice at his funeral, whatever valuable chattels they might have gained in his service. We may infer from Beówulf[87] that a portion at least of the treasure he gained by his fatal combat with the firedrake was to accompany him in the tomb. Some of it was to be burnt with his body, but some, according to the practice of the pagan North, to be buried in the mound raised over his ashes[88]. Hí on beorg dydon They put into the mound beág ⁊ beorht siglu, rings and bright gems, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forléton eorla gestreón they let earth hold eorðan healdan, the gains of noble men, gold on greóte, gold in the dust, ðǽr hit nú gen lífað where it doth yet remain eldum swá unnýt useless to men swá hit ǽror wæs. even as before it was[89]. ----- Footnote 87: Beow. l. 6016 _seq._: compare l. 5583 _seq._ Footnote 88: Ibid. l. 6320. Footnote 89: See the account of the burial of Haraldr Hilditavn in the Fornald. Savg. i. 387. “Ok áðr enn havgrinn væri aptr lokinn, þá biðr Hríngr Konúngr til gánga allt stórmenni ok alla Kappa, ok við voru staddir, at kasta í havginn stórum hríngum ok góðum vápnum, til sæmdr Haraldi Konúngi Hilditavn; ok eptir þat var aptr byrgði havgrinn vandliga.” Brynhildr caused the jewels which her father Buðli had given her, to be burnt with herself and Sigurðr. Sigurd, evid. iii. 65. -----