[195] Simeon of Durham, Opera Omnia, i., 84.
[196] Ibid.
[197] Liebermann, Gesetze der Angelsachsen, i., 273 (sec. 5).
[198] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1020.
[199] Sec. 4.
[200] Sees. 2, 8, and 11. For a translation of the entire document see Appendix i.
[201] Chronicon, i., 183.
[202] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1023. The story given by later writers that Thurkil was slain by a Danish mob soon after his exile cannot be credited. It doubtless originated in a desire that the persecutor of Saint Alphege should suffer retribution. See especially the life of this saint in Langebek, Scriptores, ii., 453.
[203] One of the sagas (Fagrskinna, c. 24) tells us that Eric actually made the pilgrimage and died soon after the return. That such a journey was at least planned seems probable; Eric's brother-in-law, Einar, is said to have made a pilgrimage during the earlier years of the decade; they may have planned to make the journey together. The earliest English writers who account for Eric's disappearance on the theory of exile are William of Malmesbury (Gesta Regum, i., 219), and Henry of Huntingdon (Historia Anglorum, 186).
[204] Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus, No. 741.