V. FROM THE CHRONICLE.
l. 2. hēr sind, there are here. hēr is here used analogously to þǣr, as in II. 3 and the modern E. there are. Cp. also l. 12 below.
ġeþēodu, languages as the test of nationality. It is believed that Latin was still spoken as a living language by the Romanized Britons at the time of the venerable Bede (eighth century), from whose Church History this section was taken by the compilers of the Chronicle.
l. 5. Armenia is an error for Armorica.
l. 6. Scithie, Scythia.
l. 8. Norþibernie, North of Ireland.
l. 24. hēr, at this date—at this place in the series of entries which constitute the Chronicle.
l. 26. Wyrtġeorn is the regular development of an earlier *Wurtigern from the British Vortigern.
l. 28. Ypwinesflēot has not been identified; some say Ebbsfleet.
l. 45. Æġlesþrep, Aylesthorpe, a village near Aylesford.