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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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about the Mersey or the Dee. It is true that Florence
of Worcester names the Humber as the estuary
entered by the fleet, but it is hardly conceivable that
615 ships should have been taken all round by
Pentland Firth or Land’s End when any of the
estuaries on the west coast would serve as a port,
and a landing in any one of them would further the
objects of the expedition better than the desolation of
the Danelaw. After Vínheidi (perhaps Brunanburh, as
described in Egil’s Saga), one Alfgeir rode in flight
night and day to "Jarlsnes," the Earl’s Ness, mentioned
also in Orkneyinga Saga (chap. 72) as in Bretland
(Wales), for which Mr. A. G. Moffat suggests a site
near Swansea. This, so far as it has any weight, adds
to the probability of the western site for Brunanburh.

The various names of the battle-fields are :—
Brunandune (Æthelwerd) ; Brunanburh (Chronicle) ;
Wendune or Weondune quod alio nomine æt Brunnanwere
(-were) vel Brunnanbyrig appellatur (Symeon) ;
Bruneford, or Brunefeld (William of Malmesbury) ;
BrunengafeId in the British Museum facsimile Charter;
Brumanburgh (R. de Hoveden) ; Brunanburgh approached
from the Humber (Florence of Worcester) ;
Bruneswerce (Gaimar) ; Brunford in Northumbria
(pseudo-Ingulf) ; the plains of Othlyn (Ann. Clonmacnois);
Brune (Ann. Camb.); Dunbrunde perhaps
means this site (Pictish Chronicle) ; and Vínheiði við
Vínuskóga
is the name in Egil’s Saga of the battle
which corresponds in Icelandic tradition to Brunanburh
in the English story. Egil’s Saga also describes the
battlefield as a heath between a river and a wood,

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