Note 1446 — Chapter X · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE DEATH OF THE ÆTHELING TO THE DEATH OF THE KING.[1258] 1057–1066.

The names come from Florence, who (see Appendix HH) describes them as “illius [Tostii] Danicos huscarlas, Amundum et Reavensvartum.” “Danicus” is an ambiguous word, and does not show whether they were simply adventurers from Denmark or sons of followers of Cnut. The name would hardly be applied to descendants of the elder Danish settlers. At any rate, one of these men was a considerable landowner, and both, from their special mention, must have been men of some importance, probably officers in command of the force. Reavenswart is doubtless the man who, under several spellings, occurs as a landowner T. R. E. in Yorkshire, Shropshire, and Cheshire (Domesday, 257, 266, 268 b, 301 b). The Amund of Suffolk, 433, 433 b, and 441 b, is a different person, but may not “Anand huscarl R. E.” in Hertfordshire, 140 b, be a corrupt form of our Amund?