[105] There seems to have been a tendency as legislation advanced to increase the distance in respect of wergilds between the king and his subjects.
[106] Chadwick, Anglo-Saxon Institutions, pp. 144–48.
[107] See Chadwick, chapter viii., for references on this point.
[108] Chadwick (Excursus, iv.) takes a different view and practically denies the elective power of the witan.
[109] There are some indications that in early times the shilling of Wessex may have contained only 4 peningas.
[110] Heinrich Leo.
[111] This name, or rather Cruland, was afterwards corrupted into Croyland.
[112] Ep. 73 (Mon. Hist. Germ., Epist. iii., 340).
[113] It is now recognised that the dates in the Chronicle from 754 to 851 are two, or in some cases three years behind the true dates.
[114] The words from Haerethaland which follow in the text are thought by Steenstrup (Normannerne, ii., 15–20) to be an interpolation. In the following chapters the example of the Chronicle will generally be followed, in calling the Scandinavian invaders Danes, without entering on the debated question which of them came from Denmark proper and which from Norway.