THE END.
[Notes].
[1] the armed followers of a Saxon noble. [2] The national weapon. A short, strong, curved blade used as a dirk. [3] The massacre of the Danes on St. Brice's day, 1002 A.D., in which Swein's sister was killed. [4] Now Peterborough. [5] From the Heimskringla, Saga of Olaf the Saint. [6] Tribute. [7] An embodied familiar spirit. [8] According to Bede, in A.D. 418 the Romans collected and hid all the treasure in England, except some part which they took to Gaul. OElla took Anderida in 491 A.D. [9] The cold spring. [10] Mail shirt. [11] Daughter of Alfred the Great, and wife of Ethelred, Earl of Mercia. [12] The utmost term of Saxon contempt. [13] Now Canewdon. [14] The "Five Boroughs" of the old Danelagh were Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford, and Derby. [15] The work of the great Dunstan, and the first code that recognized the rights of Danish settlers. [16] This prophecy of Olaf's is recorded in the "Saga of Olaf the Saint".