Note to GunnLeif Merl I 5VIII
[All]: This stanza possibly represents an inference from one or both of the following in DGB 105: Vortegirnus … duci eorum Hengisto dedit agros plurimos in Lindiseia regione (Reeve and Wright 2007, 127.299-300) ‘Vortigern … gave their leader Hengest extensive lands in the region of Lindsey’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 126) or [Saxones] urbem Lundoniae primitus adeuntes ceperunt. Ceperunt deinde Eboracum et Lindocolinum nec non et Guintoniam, quasque prouincias deuastantes (Reeve and Wright 2007, 137.494-5) ‘[The Saxons] went first to London, which they took. Next they took York, Lincoln and Winchester and laid waste to all regions’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 136). But the more likely source, at least for ll. 5-8, is Bede (HE I 15; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 50-1), who locates the incursions generically in orientali parte insulae ‘in the eastern part of the island’, cited by Henry of Huntingdon (HA 1996, 78-9).
References
- Bibliography
- Colgrave, Bertram and R. A. B. Mynors, eds. 1969. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon.
- HA 1996 = Greenway, Diana E., ed. 1996. Henry of Huntingdon. Historia Anglorum: The History of the English People. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Reeve, Michael D., and Neil Wright. 2007. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia regum Britanniae]. Woodbridge: Boydell.