[104] Cambridge.
[105] The Frome.
[106] They swore oaths to Alfred on the holy ring, says the Saxon Chronicle, p. 355. The most solemn manner of swearing among the Danes and other northern nations was by their arms. Olaus Magnus, lib. viii. c. 2.
[107] Exeter.
[108] It is necessary to inform the reader that many passages of this work are modern interpolations, made in the old MS. by a later hand. The "Annals" referred to in the text are supposed not to be a genuine work of Asser.
[109] Swanwich, in Dorsetshire.
[110] This clause is a mere repetition of the preceding. See a former note in this page.
[111] Athelney, a morass formed by the conflux of the Thone and the Parret. See Saxon Chron. p. 356, and Chronicle of Ethelwerd, p 31.
[112] The original here is in Latin verse, and may therefore be rendered into English verse, but such as every housewife in Somersetshire would understand.
[113] Probably the sanguinary Hubba.