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Note on the Gyrwe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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1 Ekwall on the Gyrwe in, 1907, p. 26.Beiblatt zur Anglia,1922, p. 116.
2 IV, 6.In a charter dated 957 (Birch, Cart. Sax. 1003) the phrase ‘on gyrupan fen’ occurs in an enumeration of the bounds of Conington.
3 Register of Hyde Abbey, (ed. by Birch), p. 88.
4 as held e.g. : by Corbett.Eng. Hist. Rev., 1900.
5 IV, 19.
6 Liber Eliensis, p. 18. ‘Insulam Elge ab eodem sponso ejus accepit in dotem ’., Page 46,‘ Ely, quam in possessionem propriam, quam a Tonberto primo sponso ejus, jure dotis’ . For the Saxon custom of the husband g!ving a dowry, see Tacitus : Gennania, 18. ‘ Dotem non uxormarito, sed uxoris maritus offert’ .
7 IV, 19.
8 Liber Eliensis,p. 4.
9 See Chadwick,op. cit., p. 7–8.
10 Goodall : ‘ The Tribal Hidage ’ in Zeitschrift für Ortsnamenforschung Band I, Heft. 3 (1925), p. 170. Cf. Mawer and Stenton : Place Names of Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire, for Sword Point, 1926, p. 208.
11 Goodall, 169–170.
12 eg. Brownbill : ‘ The Tribal Hidage ’,inEng. Hist. Rev., Oct. 1912.
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