[145] See Cnut’s laws, ii., 13.

[146] Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus, No. 317; Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, No. 558.

[147] Not 893–97 as Chronicle.

[148] Earle, Two Saxon Chronicles (1865), p. xvi.

[149] Reginonis Chronicon, a. 891.

[150] In Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898), xiii., 444, Mr. W. C. Abbott argues that Hasting is possibly identical with Hásteinn, one of the first settlers of Iceland.

[151] Probably; but the Chronicle gives the date 901, and Mr. Stevenson, Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898), xiii., 71, argues strongly for 899.

[152] Words and Places, pp. 175–76.

[153] Might it not be added “and from the Humber?”

[154] The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmorland (1856).