Note 210 — Chapter X · ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE NORMAN POINT OF VIEW.

This passage is from the last clause in the so-called treaty between Edward and Guthrum, ‘when the English and Danes fully took to peace and to friendship, and the Witan also who were afterwards, oft and unseldom that same renewed and increased with good.’ Thorpe, p. 71; and see Schmid’s Einleitung, p. xlii.