[109] Dorchester.
[110] For the usual Dornsæte.
[111] Here the Chronicle has ‘on the holy arm-ring,’ on which the Danes, it would seem, were accustomed to swear.
[112] Here the Chronicle has: ‘They, the mounted army, stole away from the fierd [the English forces] in the night into Exeter.’ This, of course, is the true account, while the statement in Asser is incredible.
[113] Exe.
[114] From the Chronicle.
[115] See chap. 46.
[116] Largely from the Chronicle.
[117] At this point Archbishop Parker interpolated, from the Annals of St. Neots, the story of Alfred and the cakes. This story, however, cannot be proved to antedate the Norman Conquest.
[118] The first clause from the Chronicle; the rest original.