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Notes ; — 



Tlio 11.11116 of Bninanburgh, bv Dr. Thurnam - - 249 



Tlie Caxton rolVer, by BoUon'Corney . - - 2.i0 



Arcuracy of Printing ■ . . - - 2.i0 

 Folic Lore : — Discovering the Bodies of tiie Drowned — 



Tom Chipperfeild — East Norfolk Foil; Lore - - 2-il 

 Sermon of Bisiiop Jeremy Taylor, by Jamos Crossley - 2.')1 

 Conley and Gray, No. II. - - - - - 252 

 Minor Notes: — Remains of Sir Hugh Montgomery — 

 Westminster Hall — Meaning of " Log-ship " — Lo- 

 custs of the New Testament - . . - 25-1 



QuEniEs: — 



Coinage of Vabalathus, PrincB of Palmyra, by the Rev. 

 E. S. Taylor -.-... 25.5 



Minor Queries : — Chaucer, how pronounced — The 

 Island of ^gina — Statute of Limitations Abroad — 



Tapestry Story of Justinian — Praed"s Works Fo- 



lietani— Berlin Mean Time— Defoe's House .at Stoke 

 Newington — Oxford Fellowships — Leonard Fell 

 and Judge Fell — " Cleanliness is next to Godliness " 

 — D,ivies Queries - . . . . 255 



Minor Qiieuies .'\nswered: — Poet referred to by 



Bacon — The Violin — Sir Thomas IMalory, Knt 



Archbishop of Spalatro— Play of "The Spaniards iu 

 Peru" — Selion ...... 



Replies ; — 



Prophecies of Nostradamus - > . 



Eorough-English ...... 



Passage in Virgil ...... 



Replies to Minor Queries : — F.Il-rake — Freedom from 

 Serpents— Nao, for Naw, for Ship— De Grammont — 

 The Termination "-ship "—The Fire Fingers —Mar- 

 riages within ruined Churches— Death of Cerv.antes— 

 Story referred to by Jeremy T.aylor — (Jrav's Obliga- 

 tions to Jeremy Tavlor — Blessius; liy the Hand _ 

 Sacre Clicveux — Pope and Fiatman — Lintearaina 

 and Surplices ..... 



Miscell.\neocs : — 



Notes on liaoks, .S.iles, Catalogues, &c. - 

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 Notices to Correspondents ... 



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n.\TTLE OF BRUNANnURGH. 



It is rcmarkahle tliat the silo of this groat 

 l).attlo, iho eilocts of which wore so important to 

 the Aiii;Io-Saxon power, remains to this day un- 

 deterinined. 



The several clironiclers who describe it give 

 various natne.s to the locality, though modem 

 autiiors gCMorally adopt the name of J5runaiil)urgh, 

 or "Town of tiic Fountains." Not however^) 

 insi.st on such variations in tlio name as Bruuau- 

 duno, IJriiiicbcriic, iirunuford, and Uruniby, .Si- 

 meon of Durham describes the battle as occurring 



at a place named Wendune, otherwise Weonduno, 

 to which moreover he as-signs the furtlier name of 

 Ethrunnanwereh. Tlie locality has been sought 

 for iu most improbable places, — in Northumber- 

 land and Cheshire. There can, however, be little 

 or no doubt that this Waterloo of the Anglo- 

 Saxons, as it has been called, is really to be found 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of the H umber ; 

 though, whether on the northern or southern bank 

 of that river seems quite uncertain : so fiir at 

 least as the evidence hitherto adduced alFords us 

 the means of judging. In the Winchester volume 

 of the British Archaeological Association, Me. 

 Hesleden states his belief thlt he has traced the 

 site of this battle on the south of the Humber, 

 near Barton in Lincolnshire ; but the evidence on 

 which he grounds this opinion, whilst demanding 

 for this locality further consideration, seems to me 

 far from conclusive. IMr. Hesleden describes 

 some curious earth-works in this situation, and 

 thinks he has discovered the site of Anlaff's 

 camp at Barrow, and that of Athelstan at 

 Burnham (formerly, as he informs us, written 

 " Brunnum"), where is an eminence called " Black 

 Hold," which he thinks was the actual seat of the 

 battle. At Barrow are places called " Barrow 

 Bags" and '■^ Blow Wells." Docs Me. Hesleden 

 think we have here any reference to the " foun- 

 tains " giving their name to Brunanburgh ? 



It is very desirable, in a topographical and his- 

 torical point of view, that the site of this remark- 

 able contest between the Anglo-Saxons and the 

 allied Scandinavians and British regnli under 

 Anlaff, should be determined on satisfactory data ; 

 and the allusion to it by Ms. Hesleden, in a re- 

 cent communication to "Notes and Queries" 

 (Vol. iv., p. 180.), induces me to call the attention 

 of your readers, and of that gentleman in parti- 

 cular, to some mention of this battle, topographi- 

 cally not unimportant, which is to be found in 

 Egil's Saga ; tlie hero of which was himself a 

 combatant at Brunanburgh, under the standard of 

 Athelstan, and which appears to have escaped 

 tlie observation of those who have discussed the 

 proIj;ible site of this deadly encounter. The cir- 

 cumstantial account to be found in the Saga, 

 ciiap. lii. and liii., has not been overlooked by 



