Note 90 — CHAPTER THE THIRD. CONSTANTINE THE SECOND—A. D. 900-943.
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Innes, Ap. 3. Wynton, bk. 6, c. 10. Fordun, l. 4, c. 27.—The old chronicler calls the Northmen “Sumerlide”—summer army—an expression similar to the “micel sumorlida” of the Saxon Chronicle 871. In fact, piracy was the summer occupation of the Norsemen.