[65] Old English History, p. 334.

[66] Norm. Conq., iii. 764; cf. English Historical Review, ix. 18.

[67] 'This is the shield-wall, the famous tactic of the English and Danes alike. We shall hear of it in all the great battles down to the end.' (Freeman's Old English History, p. 112.)

[68] Ibid., p. 155.

[69] Ibid., p. 196.

[70] Norm. Conq., iii. viii.

[71] Ibid., pp. 445-6.

[72] Ibid., p. 472.

[73] Ibid., p. 480.

[74] Norm. Conq., iii. pp. 488, 490.