SCANDO-GOTHIC ART IN WESSEX. 



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And we must include in this list of appellations, besides the 

 names of well-known Visigoths, those that are to be found in 

 the Landnamabok, which, with an account of the discovery 

 and settlement of Iceland, contains a record of the families 

 who lived there. * 



Armed with these weapons we may now advance. There 

 were ten bishops of Ramsbury from 909 to 1045, when the 

 last was consecrated, and he died in 1078. Of these we may 

 say, with some show of reason, that four were Anglo-Saxon 

 and six were Scando-Gothic. 



Ethelstan . . 909 A Saxon. 



Odo . . . . 927 Oddi and Oddr, common in Land- 

 namabok. 



Aelric . . Contraction of Egill-rik, common in 



Landnamabok. 



Osulf . . 952 A Saxon. 



Elf stan . . 974 Corruption of Eyulf and Eyolf (Wolf), 

 Old Norse, common in Landnamabok. 



Wulfgar . . 981 A Saxon. 



Siric.. .. 985 Contraction of Sigeric, Liber Vitae 



Eccl. Dunelm. a monk. A subregulus, 

 a Thane, in Wilts, 901. Kemble's 

 Codex Diplomaticus. 



Elfric . . 990 cf. Elfstan. Eyolf. Old Norse. 



Brihtwold ..1005 A Saxon. 



Herman ..1045 Gothic, Hermanric, or Ermanaric, a 

 Gothic King. Hermandr, common in 

 Landnamabok. 



An important and convincing charter, not quite too late for ' 

 our purpose, is one under the hand of Cnut King of England, 

 Denmark, and Norway. He was born 994 and died at Shaftes- 

 bury 1035. He was baptised when under 20 years of age, and 



* The author of this work was Sturla Thortharson, a judge in the 

 Higher Court, who died in 1284. 



