Note 553 — Chapter V · THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.[464] 975–1016.

“On Norðwalum,” say the Chronicles; so in Florence “septemtrionalem Britanniam.” These phrases do not mean North Wales as opposed to South, still less North Britain, in the sense of Scotland, but simply what we now call Wales as opposed to Cornwall. The part ravaged was doubtless the northern coast of the Bristol Channel.