Note 272 — Chapter II · THE BEGINNINGS OF ANJOU. 843–987.
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Among these the Angevin writers (Gesta Cons., Marchegay, Comtes, pp. 79, 80) introduce Geoffrey Greygown’s fight with a gigantic Dane, Æthelwulf. It seems to be only another version, adorned with reminiscences of David and Goliath, of Richer’s account (l. iii. c. 76) of a fight between a German champion and a man named Ivo; and the whole story of this war in the Gesta is full of hopeless confusions and anachronisms.