[26] "Quum ex captivis quæreret Cæsar, quamobrem Ariovistus prœlio non decertaret, hunc reperiebat causam: quod apud Germanos ea consuetudo esset, ut matresfamilias eorum sortibus et vaticinationibus declararent, utrum prœlium committi ex usu esset, necne: eas ita dicere, non esse fas Germanos superare, si ante novam lunam prœlio contendissent."--_Bell. Gall._, lib. i.
[29] Epist. Greg. Papæ ad Childebert. Apud Scrip, rer. Franc., iv. 17.
[34] Chron. of Battle Abbey; Ordericus Vitalis; Wace.
[37] "Thor, aid!" or perhaps Tyr, the Mars of the Northmen. See Kemble's _Saxons in England_, i. 350; and Thierry's _Conquête de l'Ang. par les Normands_, sub an. 912-997.
[38] Hamon-aux-Dents, seigneur de Thorigny, of which place the church is dedicated to S. Amand.
[40] See also Malmesbury, bk. iii., sub an. 1066.
[41] The particular localities where the spears and other weapons have been found are mentioned in the Description of the engravings.
[42] "Saxon Obsequies," by the Hon. R. C. Neville.
[45] Das germanische Todtenlager bei Selzen in der Provinz Rheinhessen.
[46] Afbildninger fra det Kongelige Museum for Nordiske Oldsager i Kjöbenhavn.
[47] See the examples engraved in the Archæologia, vol. xxxv. p. 78.
[49] Ancient Egyptians, vol. i. p. 353, sq., ed. 1854.
[52] Journal of Archæol. Association, vol. iii.
[57] In quoting illuminated manuscripts, we shall be careful to give the Collection and the folio; but, where not expressed to the contrary, beg it to be understood that the place of deposit is the British Museum.
[58] See Henault, 1655; and Chiflet, _Anastasis Childerici Primi_.
[59] See Cochet, Lindenschmit, and the Transactions of the Luxembourg Society, vol. viii. p. 45.
[61] Landulphi senioris Mediolanens.--Hist. Rer. Ital., tom. iv. p. 79.
[70] Manual of the Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen.
[73] For a fuller account of this transaction, and of other notable deeds of our hero-smith, see the Völundar Quida of the Edda Sæmundar, and the Wilkina Saga (c. 21, sq.); also Grimm's Heldensage, p. 14, and Teut. Mythol., 221.
[74] Kemble's "Saxons in England," p. 280.
[76] Boys' Hist. of Sandwich. The charter is given in Mr. Kemble's _Codex Diplom. Ævi Sax._, iv. 23.
[83] The passage which has furnished these lines is further curious, as it would seem to shew that the _Fraternitas Armorum_ was not confined to the knightly order. These two English guisarmiers enter the field of Hastings under a similar compact to triumph or fall together:--