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182 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
BOOK in. Aul af in 993 when returning from Staines near
CHAP. II.
Windsor. So Mede Stane (now Maidstone), on the
Medway, where the Danish fleet came A.D. 839, and
again A.D. 885, " The Mote "
being on one side of the
river and Pennenden Heath, " a place of counsel "
being
on the other.
Stanes, at the head of Southampton water, where
the Danes came A.D. 860, and where Aulaf, the king
of Dublin with his fleet passed the winter of A.D.
993.
Stanes (Estanes), at the mouth of the Thames
near Swanscomla (Swinescamp), where Swein landed
and encamped in 994, when he and Aulaf were about
to besiege London.
Stanes, Hertfordshire, where the Danish fleet came
A.D. 896, forming a work twenty miles above London
on the Biver Lea.
Stanes, Herefordshire, A.D. 1055., Earl Elgar,
assisted by the Danes of Ireland with eighteen ships,
landed here and burned Hereford.
Stanes, Buckinghamshire,
the River Thame.
hundred of Stanes on
Stanes, Worcestershire, on the River Stour.
Stane, Northamptonshire, near Staneford, all
places which had been frequented by the Danes, and
we may add to these their landing-places at Stane in
the Isle of Oxney (Kent) Stane in the marsh division
of Lindsey.
Stane, near Faversham, having on the opposite
side of the river " the Mote."
This meeting of John with the English Barons at
Stanes for the purpose of sanctioning the laws by