Note 608 — Chapter V · THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.[464] 975–1016.
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The Chronicles have, “her was Exanceaster abrocen þunruh þone Franciscan ceorl Hugan, ðe seo hlæfdige hire hæfde geset to gerefan.” But Florence has, “per insilium, incuriam, et traditionem Nortmannici comitis Hugonis, quem regina Emma Domnaniæ præfecit.” Henry of Huntingdon (752 B) says, “Hugonem Normannum, quem ibi regina Emma vicecomitem [gerefan?] statuerat, in perniciem compegerunt.” Florence seems to have read eorl where our copies of the Chronicles have ceorl; also he seems to make Hugh Ealdorman of Devonshire, while in the Chronicles he is only reeve of Exeter. The “Frenchmen” of the Chronicles may always be Normans or not; most likely Hugh was a Norman.
The “insilium” of Florence is an attempt to express in Latin the negative form “unræd.” See above, p. 261.