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father of Weland, " the smith; " the ancestor in nomenclature 
of the numerous progeny of Smiths who are not unknown in 
this our England of the present day. 
There is Branton, or the town of Brand; he being another 
son of Boeldeg, and grandson of AVoden. 
Surely all these different names of Saxon chieftains and 
heroes, in so many ways connected with Hengest, point out 
to us not only that it was here that that great conqueror of 
Britain fought his last fight and fell, but that here himself 
and followers had their location and their home, and that 
77/ u n -castle, or Dun-castle (£/i = J)) which all historians 
mention as the name of Yortigern's grant, was situate in 
this district, on the banks of this old Dun. 
There are many other points of interest which might be 
mentioned, but it would only encumber our subject. TTe 
have finished ; and we trust that we may have interested some 
of } T ou in the traditions and localities of your own immediate 
neighbourhood, and that others may be led to make further 
researches in that earliest of all districts mentioned in ancient 
English story, the old Camj)odunum, or Dona-felda, or 
Plain of the Don, which has witnessed such changing scenes, 
and been alike the home and battle-field of so many and such 
various people and nations, and which has known as masters 
the Briton and the Roman, the Pict and the Saxon, the Dane 
and the Norseman, and, finally, the Norman, conquerors of 
them all. 
