Note 59 — INTRODUCTION. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The list is worth transcribing.
B.C.
1. Dan 1038
2. Humble 998
3. Lother —
4. Skiold 966
5. Gram 888
6. Swibdager 856
7. Guthrum —
8. Hadding 816
9. Frode I. 761
10. Halden 685
11. Roe and Helge —
12. Helge alone 595
13. Rolf, or Rollo 566
14. Hoder —
15. Ruric Slingeband 483
Consequently Hamlet must have lived nearly four centuries before Christ. What thanks do we not owe to Saxo for his important account of Britain so many years before Cæsar! But to continue.
B.C.
16. Wiglet —
17. Guitlach —
18. Wermund 352
19. Olaf I. 292
20. Dan II. —
21. Hungleth —
22. Frode II. 172
23. Dan III. —
24. Fridleif —
25. Frode III. —