[64] Athelney, no longer an island, is situated near Borough-bridge in Somersetshire.
[65] Easter Day was the 23rd of March in the year 878.
[66] Heddington.
[67] Some suppose that this is Aller near Athelingay, or Athelney; but Athelney itself is called Alney by the common people; it is therefore more likely that Athelingay and Alney were the same place, as they are at present.
[68] Aschloha, or Ascloha, is on the Maese, about fourteen miles from the Rhine.
[69] The Scheldt.
[70] Condé.
[71] More commonly Ambiani, now Amiens.
[72] Louvain.
[73] I acknowledge my inability to translate this and many other passages of this obscure author. The events which here follow for the next half page are referred by the Saxon Chronicle to the year 894.