Endnotes

  1. “Pagani editiorem Iocum praeoccupaverant. Christiani ab inferiori loco aciem dirigebant. Erat quoque in eodem loco unica spinosa arbor, brevis admodum (quam nos ipsi nostris propriis oculis vidimus). Circa quam ergo hostiles inter se acies cum ingenti clamore hostiliter conveniunt. Quo in loco alter de duobus Paganorum regibus et quinque comites occisi occubuerunt, et multa millia Paganae partis in eodem loco. Cecidit illic ergo Boegsceg Rex, et Sidroc ille senex comes, et Sidroc Junior comes, et Obsbern comes,” etc.

    —⁠Annales Rerum Gestarum Aelfredi Magni, Auctore Asserio. Recensuit Franciscus Wise. Oxford, , p. 23.

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  2. A kind and wise critic, an old Rugboean, notes here in the margin: “The small friend system was not so utterly bad from ⁠–⁠.” Before that, too, there were many noble friendships between big and little boys; but I can’t strike out the passage. Many boys will know why it is left in.

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