Note 757 — Chapter V · THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.[464] 975–1016. (continued 3)
Reading edition
They crossed “cum multo equitatu,” says Florence; “mid his here” say the Chronicles, only the Peterborough and Canterbury manuscripts (one of which, Canterbury, omits the words “mid his here”) add “clx. scipa.” Do they mean that Cnut sailed up the Thames? The other reading is distinctly preferable.