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THE PAGAN LORD
BERNARD CORNWELL
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2013
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Family tree © Colin Hall 2009
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Source ISBN: 9780007331925
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007331949
Version: 2017-05-06
THE PAGAN LORD
is for Tom and Dana
CONTENTS
The spelling of place names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest to AD 900, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I should spell England as Englaland, and have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.
| Æsc’s Hill | Ashdown, Berkshire |
| Afen | River Avon, Wiltshire |
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Beamfleot
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