[938] Giles states (note to William of Malmesbury, ann. 1043) that Richard of Devizes is the earliest authority for this story.
[939] Dudon. S. Quintini Lib. iv.
[940] Order. Vitalis Lib. X. cap. 13.
[941] Grágás, Sect. VI. cap. 45. Andreas of Lunden early in the 13th century speaks of it as formerly in vogue for these cases, but disused in his time (Legg. Scan. Provin. Ed. P. G. Thorsen, Kjobenhavn, 1853, p. 110).
[942] “E si alguna dixiere que preñada es dalguno, y el varon no la creyere, prenda fierro caliente; e si quemada fuere, non sea creyda, mas si sana escapare del fierro, de el fijo al padre, e criel assi como fuero es.”—Fuero de Baeça (Villadiego, Fuero Juzgo, fol. 317a).
[943] Roger of Wendover, ann. 1085.
[944] Eadmeri Hist. Novor. Lib. II. (Migne, CLIX. 412).
[945] Gudeni Cod. Diplom. Mogunt. T. I. No. liii.
[946] Mazure et Hatoulet, Fors de Béarn, p. xxxviii.
[947] Hyde Relig. Vet. Persar. cap. xxiv. (Ed. 1760, pp. 320-1).