[39] T. Wright, “Celt, Roman, and Saxon,” p. 389; J. R. Green, “Short History,” i., 2.
[40] “Ecclesiastical History,” i., 22.
[41] It is the manner of the Saxon chronicles to attach each annal to its year-date by an adverb of locality—“Here.”
[42] “Germania,” c. 2.
[43] Id., c. 9.
[44] Id., c. 45.
[45] “Germania,” c. 40.
[46] “De Temporum Ratione,” c. 13.
[47] “Archæologia,” vol. xxxv., p. 259.
[48] Compare with this the “Spaedom of the Norns,” in Dasent’s “Burnt Njal”; also Gray’s “Fatal Sisters,” which is another version of the same original, one remove further off, as Gray knew the poem only through the Latin of Torfæus.