Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) / Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

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[1036] Torfæi Præfat. ad Orcad. Hist.—Pref. to Five pieces of Runic Poetry, &c.

[1037] Vid. Chronic. Saxon. à Gibson. pp. 12, 13, 4to.—Bed. Hist. Eccles. à Smith, lib. 1, c. 15.—"Ealdsexe [Regio antiq. Saxonum] in cervice Cimbricæ Chersonesi, Holsatiam proprie dictam, Dithmarsiam, Stormariam, et Wagriam, complectens."—Annot. in Bed. à Smith, p. 52. Et vid. Camdeni Britan.

[1038] "Anglia Vetus, hodie etiam Anglen, sita est inter Saxones et Giotes [Jutos], habens oppidum capitale ... Sleswick."—Ethelwerd, lib. 1.

[1039] See Northern Antiquities, &c. vol i. pp. 7, 8, 185, 259, 260, 261.

[1040] See Northern Antiquities, Preface, p. xxvi.

[1041] See Rapin's Hist. (by Tindal, fol. 1732, vol. i. p. 36) who places the incident here related under the year 495.

[1042] By Bale and Spelman. See Note [M].

[1043] Ibid.

[1044] Anno 938. Vid. Rapin, &c.

[1045] So I think the name should be printed, rather then Anlaff, the more usual form (the same traces of the letters express both names in MS.), Aulaff being evidently the genuine northern name Olaff, or Olave. Lat. Olaus. In the old Romance of Horn-Childe (see vol. iii. Appendix), the name of the king his father is Allof, which is evidently Ollaf, with the vowels only transposed.