Note 617 — Chapter V · THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.[464] 975–1016.
Reading edition
The Chronicler here, though writing in prose, gets poetical, and calls the ships “horses of the wave”—“þær he wiste his yð hengestas.”
Reading edition
The Chronicler here, though writing in prose, gets poetical, and calls the ships “horses of the wave”—“þær he wiste his yð hengestas.”