HERE ENDS THE PROLOGUE.
FOOTNOTES:
[6] Ethelred died and Alfred succeeded him a.d. 871.
[7] Baldwin, count of Flanders died a.d. 918. See Malmesbury, p. 121.
[8] Arnulf, count of Flanders, a.d. 965.
[9] The emperor Otho married Edgitha a.d. 930.
[10] Lewis the blind.
[11] The writer adds the barbarous verse, "Esto mihi valens cunctis perhenniter horis," which is as easy to construe as to scan.