↑ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1035-40, M. Swanton translation (1996).
↑ For an explanation of this etymology, see Albert Le Roy Bartlett, The Essentials of Language and Grammar, Silver, Burdett and Co., 1900, p. 28.
↑ "Earl Leofric and almost all the thegns north of the Thames, and the men of the fleet in London"
↑ This may have been motivated partly in response to the murder of Alfred, Harthacanute's half-brother, and partly for his perceived theft of the crown.