134 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



busque voranda. When Waltheof, the son of Siward, 

 with an invading Danish army arrived in the 

 Humber, in September, 1 069, and, reinforced by the 

 men of Northumbria, made an attack upon York, it is 

 related that 3,000 Normans fell. A hundred of th& 

 chiefest in rank v?ere 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 Eobert de Umfraville,t Knight, lord of 

 Toures and Tain, otherwise called " Eobert with the 

 Beard," being kinsman to that king, obtained from 

 him a grant of the lordship, valley, and forest of 

 Eiddesdale, 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 

 Eiddesdale, 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.! 



1 08 7- 1 100. The inveterate love of the chase 



* Freeman's "Norman Conquest." 



t " The name seems to be derived from one of the several places in 

 Normandy now called Amfreville, hut in some instances originally 

 Omfreville, that is Humfredi villa, the vill or abode of Humphrey." 

 — Lower, Patronymica Briiannica. 



t See Dugdale's "Baronage," vol. i. p. 504; and Blount's "Ancient 

 Tenures," p. 241. 



