Note 9 — THE ABBESS OF ST ABB.

St Abb’s-head, a well-known promontory on the coast of Berwickshire, where are the remains of a chapel, is said to have derived its designation from Ebba, only daughter to Edelfrid, King of Northumberland, who, on her father being slain in battle by the East Angles, made her escape in an open boat, as narrated in the poem, and landed on that point of land to which she gave her name.—See Holinshed’s Chron.