Note 921 — Chapter VI · THE DANISH KINGS IN ENGLAND.[818] 1017–1042.
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ii. 18. Here the English title Ealdorman is used, but in a later clause (ii. 72) we find the highest rank described as Earls, clearly in the later and not in the earlier sense of the word, as the Earl is distinctly marked as superior to the King’s Thegn.