Note 18 — Chapter III
Reading edition
This is Robert of Gloster’s account of the Battle:—
“The Kyng and Alfred ys brother nome men ynowe, Mette hem, and a batayle smyte up Assesdowne— Ther was mony moder chyld, that sone lay ther doune— The batayle ylaste vorte-nygt, and ther were aslawe Vyf dukes of Dene-march, ar hii wolde wyth drawe, And mony thousende of other men, and tho’ gonne hii to fle; Ac hii adde alle ybe assend, gyf the nyght n’adde y bee. Robert of Gloster, p. 263, apud Thomas Hearne. Ed. 1724.”