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atrocissima inter Anglos & Norwegienses, & interfecti 

 sunt innumerabiles. Occupaverunt vero Norwegienses 

 terras multas & insulas regni hujus, quas adhuc detinent 

 occupatas, nee potuerunt unquam postea penitus evelli. 

 Tandem modo confederati sunt nobis fide, & sacramento, 

 & per uxores suas, quas postea ceperunt de sanguine 

 nostro, & per affinitates, & conjugia. Ita demum con- 

 stituit, & eis concessit bonus rex Edouardus propinquus 

 noster (qui fuit optimus filius pacis) per commune con- 

 silium totius regni. Qua de causa possent, & debent 

 prasdicti de caetero nobiscum cohabitare, & remanere in 

 regno, sicut conjurati fratres nostri. 



The same in English. 



ARthur which was som.etimes the most renowmed 

 king of the Britains, was a mightie, and valiant 

 man, and a famous warriour. This kingdome was too 

 litle for him, & his minde was not contented with it. 

 He therefore valiantly subdued all Scantia, which is now 

 called Norway, and all the Islands beyond Norway, to wit. 

 Island and Greenland, which are apperteining unto Nor- 

 way, Sweveland, Ireland, Gotland, Denmarke, Semeland, 

 Windland, Curland, Roe, Femeland, Wireland, Flanders, 

 Cherilland, Lapland, and all the other lands & Islands of 

 the East sea, even unto Russia (in which Lapland he 

 placed the Easterly bounds of his Brittish Empire) and 

 many other Islands beyond Norway, even under the 

 North pole, which are appendances of Scantia, now called 

 Norway. These people were wild and savage, and had 

 not in them the love of God nor of their neighbors, 

 because all evill commeth from the North, yet there were 

 among them certeine Christians living in secret. But 

 king Arthur was an exceeding good Christian, and caused 

 them to be baptized, and thorowout all Norway to worship 

 one God, and to receive and keepe Inviolably for ever, 

 faith in Christ onely. At that time all the noble men of 

 Norway tooke wives of the noble nation of the Britaines, 

 whereupon the Norses say, that they are descended of the 



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