54.x The S^mral Hijlory 
by the five flones meeting in a point at the top ; which perhaps 
may be the difpofition intended by Saxo Grammaticm^ and out of 
him by Wormim^ Cuneatoordine^ which he fays exprefly fignified, 
EqueHrium acies ibidem^ vel profe^fortunatiu^ triumphaffe ^ i.e, that 
Knights or Horfe-men there, or near the place, obtained a glori- 
ous Viftory. 
98. Yet againft this conjedure I fore-fee there lye two objeSiions 
worth removal, i. That in thele Cirques of ficnes defigned for 
the ele^ion of Kings, there was always a Bongftolen moft times 
bigger than the reft placed in the middle of it, as intimated above, 
§.90. Andfecondly, that had this place been at firft defigned 
for the Inauguration of a VaniJ/j or Norrvegian King, and fuch 
places been fo effential to a good ////e, as pretended above, §.93. 
certainly all the Kings of the VaniJ/j race that reigned after here 
in England, would have been either crowned here, or at fome 
other fuch Forum ; whereas we have no fuch ItOtTiXftolen in the 
middle of xht Cirque'^ and befide, find with great fole- 
mnity Crowned at London, Harold Harefoot here at Oxford (not 
far from this Cirque) and Hardi-Canute likewife Sit London, 
99. To which it may be replyed, that though not placed in 
the Cirque, yet here is a HongMett not far off, which 'tis like 
was not neceffary fliould be fet within it ; for I find the place 
where the new ele^ed King ftood and (bewed himfelf to the peo- 
ple, at the Forum for this purpofe at %tixt in Seland, to have been 
without the Area, as our Botlfiftolen is. Area faxhs undique cin^a 
Coronationi Regum deputata vicinum habet Collem, cui Coronatusjam 
infi/iebat jurapopulo daturu6, ist omnibus confpiciendum feprMturu6 ^, 
i. e. that the Area encompaffed with ftones defigned for the Coro- 
nation of their Kings, had a Hill near it, whence the new Crown- 
ed King gave Laws, and fhewed himfelf to thepeople ; it feeming 
indifferent from hence , and another fuch like hillock called 
Crollebarolljo^, whereon the King alfo ftood, at the place of 
fuch eleSiion near Lundie in Scania whether he afcended a /ione 
or mount of eartb; within, or without the Area, fo he thence 
might be feen and heard by the people, 
100. And to the fecond Objedion it may be reafonably an- 
fwered, that the Danes by this time having gotten the whole 
Kingdom., and fuch capital Cities as London and Oxford were, 
^ Idem hl>. i.cap.^. ^ Idmlib.i ca^.'^. ^ Idem lib. i. c(if \2. 
might 
