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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 946 — Chapter IX · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE RETURN OF GODWINE TO THE DEATH OF EADWARD THE ÆTHELING.[921] 1052–1057.

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The Abingdon and Worcester Chronicles (1052) have simply “neh Sumersǽtan gemæran and Dafenascíre” (see the same forms in the entries for the last year, and Appendix G); so Florence, “in confinio Sumersetaniæ et Dorsetaniæ” this last word being a mistake for Domnaniæ, as appears from the next sentence. The Peterborough Chronicle gives the name of the spot, “and com þa úp æt Portlocan.”

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