194 Edington or Yatton the Ethandun of Alfred’s Victory ? 
gaeg, et de ipsa arce semper cum nobilibus vassellis Sumurtanensis 
contra paganos infatigabiliter rebellavit. Iterumque in 7 ebdom- 
ada post Pascha ad petram Algbryhta, que est in orientali parte 
saltus qui dicitur Selwudu, Latine autem St/va magna, Britannice 
Coitmaur, equitavit, ibique obviaverunt illi omnes accolee Sumurtu- 
nensis page & Wiltunensis, omnes accole Hamtunensis page, qui 
non ultra mare pro metu paganorum navigaverant, visoque rege, 
sicut dignum erat, quasi redivivum post tantas tribulationes reci- 
pientes immenso repleti sunt gaudio, & ibi castra metati sunt una 
nocte. Diluculo sequenti illucescente rex castra commoyens yenit 
ad locum qui dicitur Aicglea, & ibi una nocte castra metatus est; 
inde sequenti mane illucescente vexilla commovens ad locum qui 
dicitur EHpandun venit, & contra universum paganorum exercitum 
cum densa testudine atrociter belligerans, animoseque diu persistens, 
divino nutu tandem victoria potitus, Paganos maxima cede pros- 
travit, & fugientes usque ad arcem percutiens persecutus est, & 
omnia que extra arcem invenit, homines scilicet, & equos et pecora, 
confestim ceedens homines, surripuit, & ante portas Paganice arcis 
cum omni exercitu suo viriliter castra metatus est.” — Walsingham’s 
edition, p. 16. ‘In the same. year after Easter, King Alfred with 
a few of his partisans formed a stronghold in a place which is called 
Aftheling-ey, and from this stronghold continued indefatigably to 
wage war against the pagans at the head of the noblemen his vas- 
sals of Somersetshire. And again in the 7th week after Easter he 
rode to the stone [of] Aigbryhta, which is in the eastern part of 
the forest which is called Selwood, but in Latin, Silva Magna, in 
British Coitmaur; and there there met him all the inhabitants of 
Somersetshire and Wiltshire, and all such inhabitants of Hampton- 
shire as had not sailed beyond sea for fear of the pagans, and upon 
seeing the king received him, as was proper, like one come to life 
again after so many troubles, and were filled with excessive joy, and 
there they camped for one night. At dawn of the following day he 
advanced his standard to a place which is called Alcglea, where he 
encamped for one night. At dawn of the following day he came 
to a place that is called Epandun, and fiercely warring against the 
whole army of the pagans with serried masses, and courageously 
