[xi] The national representative assembly, and origin of our parliament.
[xii] Now Normandy, and so called after Rolf's Northmen.
[xiii] This charm against the "evil eye" was used in the west of England until quite lately, and may still linger. The charm against sprains is one yet recorded in the original tongue.
[xiv] Alfred had Denewulf instructed, and made him Bishop of Winchester.
[xv] In 845 A.D. Bishop Eahlstan and the levies of Somerset and Dorset defeated the first Danes who landed in Wessex, at the mouth of the Parret.
[xvi] Trading vessel, more heavily built than the swift longships.
[xvii] The "wild hunt" is still believed to pass over Cannington and the Quantock Hills, the sounds of the migration of flocks of sea fowl probably keeping the tradition alive.
[xviii] Athelstan = "noble stone."
[xix] Confirmation.