134 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
busque voranda. When Waltheof, the son of Siward, 
with an invading Danish army arrived in the 
Humber, in September, 1069, and, reinforced by the 
men of Northumbria, made an attack upon York, itis 
related that 3,000 Normans fell. A hundred of the 
chiefest in rank were said to have fallen amongst 
the flames by the hand of Waltheof himself, and the 
Scalds of the North sang how the son of Siward gave 
the corpses of the Frenchmen as a choice banquet. for 
the Wolves of Northumberland.” 
In 1076 Robert de Umfraville,t Knight, lord of 
Toures and Tain, otherwise called ‘‘ Robert with the 
Beard,” being kinsman to that king, obtained from 
him a grant of the lordship, valley, and forest of 
Riddesdale, in the county of Northumberland, with 
all castles, manors, lands, woods, pastures, waters, 
pools, and royal franchises which were formerly pos- 
sessed by Mildred, the son of Akman, late lord of 
Riddesdale, and which came to that king upon his 
conquest of England; to hold by the service of 
defending that part of the country for ever from 
enemies and Wolves, with the sword which King 
William had by his side when he entered North- 
umberland.{ 
1087-1100. The inveterate love of the chase 
* Freeman’s “ Norman Conquest.” 
+ “The name seems to be derived from one of the several places in 
Normandy now called Amfreville, but in some instances originally 
Onmfreville, that is Humfredi villa, the vill or abode of Humphrey.” 
—Lower, Patronymica Britannica. 
t See Duedale’s “ Baronage,” vol. i. p. 504; and Blount’s “ Ancient 
Tenures,” p. 241. 
