Chapter IV

THE ENGLISH KINGSHIP AND THE STRUGGLE WITH THE DANES.

1. The West Saxon Supremacy 55

2. The Coming of the Northmen 56

3. The English Coast Plundered 57

4. The Danes in the North 57

5. AElfred's Struggle in Wessex. 871--878 58

6. The Treaty of Chippenham, and its Results. 878 59

7. AElfred's Military Work 60

8. His Laws and Scholarship 60

9. Eadward the Elder. 899--925 62

10. Eadward's Conquests 62

11. Eadward and the Scots 63

12. AEthelstan. 925--940 63

13. Eadmund (940--946) and Eadred (946--955) 63

14. Danes and English 64

15. Eadwig. 955--959 64

16. Dunstan 65

17. Archbishop Oda 65

18. Eadwig's Marriage 67

CHAPTER V.

EADGAR'S ENGLAND.

1. Eadgar and Dunstan. 959--975 67

2. The Cession of Lothian 68

3. Changes in English Institutions 69

4. Growth of the King's Power 69

5. Conversion of the Freemen into Serfs 69

6. The Hundred-moot and the Lord's Court 72

7. The Towns 72

8. The Origin of the Shires 73

9. The Shire-moot 73

10. The Ealdormen and the Witenagemot 73

11. The Land 75

12. Domestic Life 75

13. Food and Drink 75