[5]. See below, Chapter XII.
[6]. Chadwick, Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions, chapter v.
[7]. Chadwick, op. cit.
[8]. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, 167.
[9]. See the account of the council at Bretford, below, page 61.
[10]. See Plummer, Life and Times of Alfred the Great, 67.
[11]. “Unready” here represents the A. S. unrædig—“devoid of counsel”—and is applied to Ethelred because of his independence of the advice of the witan.
[12]. E. H. R., vii., 209.
[13]. See Eckel, Charles le Simple.
[14]. This identification cannot be considered certain. See Flodoard, ed. P. Lauer.