Note 128 — Chapter XVI · ETHELWULF’S SONS—DANISH INVASIONS TO THE BAPTISM OF GUTHRUM.
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Florence of Worcester’s words (borrowed from St. Edmund’s earliest biographer Abbo), “Ex antiquorum Saxonum prosapia oriundus,” seem, according to the usage of the time, to refer to the Old Saxons of the continent. If he had meant merely to say “from an old Saxon family,” he would probably have said “antiqua” rather than “antiquorum”.