[144] Victoria County History of Beds., i., 282.
[145] Steenstrup’s Normannerne, vol. iv.; Danelag, p. 40.
[146] A.-S. C., 914-921.
[147] Steenstrup, Danelag, p. 41.
[148] Ibid., pp. 22, 23.
[149] Such quartering must have been confined to the unmarried Danes, but there must have been plenty of unmarried men in the piratical host, even at the period when it became customary to bring wives and children with the army.
[150] Normannerne, i., 282.
[151] Dudo, 76 (Duchesne).
[152] Herr Steenstrup shows that so far from the settlement of the Danes in Normandy being on feudal lines, they only reluctantly accepted the feudal yoke, and not till the next century. Normannerne, i., 305, 310. It is not till the 11th century that feudal castles become general in Normandy.
[153] The Danes in Normandy soon made Rouen a great centre of trade. Normannerne, i., 190.