Note 229 — Chapter XXIV · LEGISLATION OF THE LATER KINGS.

See Vinogradoff (The Growth of the Manor, p. 131) on this illustration of “the arrogant superiority of the Danish conquerors”. He remarks on the growth of the pretensions of the invaders since the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum which put the Northmen warriors only on the same level as the twelf-hyndmen, or ordinary thegns.