FOOTNOTES:
[116] Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, i., 173.
[117] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1016.
[118] Corpus Poeticum Boreale, ii., 108: the Lithsmen's Song.
[119] Book vii., c. 28.
[120] Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, i., 174.
[121] Ibid., i., 175.
[122] Encomium Emmæ, ii., c. 6. See also Thietmar, Chronicon, vii., c. 28.
[123] The story is first told by Florence of Worcester (Chronicon, i., 175)
[124] If the skirmishers who were seeking booty were in advance of the rest and by a rally of the Danes were driven into the Thames, the main force must still have been on the north bank. The "battle" must therefore have been fought on the north bank while a fragment of Canute's army was on the retreat, perhaps on the point of fording the stream. At any rate, we seem hardly justified in calling the engagement at Brentford a "pitched battle." See Oman, England before the Norman Conquest, 579.