Scandinavian-Britain

IO6SCANDINAVIAN BRITAINBucks., and Oxford, was assigned to ./Elfgar, appointedlater than ^Ethelstan the half-king. His son-in-lawBrihtnoth succeeded him, and fell at Maldon in 991 ;followed by Leofsige, who was banished 1002. Andso the Danish kingdom gradually became a part ofEngland"; leaving, however, many traces of its formerindependence.One of the Suffolk hundreds took its name fromthe howe at which the Danish Thing was held,Thingoe or Tinghowe (Round's Feudal England,p. 98, quoting Gage's Suffolk, p. xii.).Abbot Sampson'ssurvey (about 1185) giyes tne names of thetwelve " leets " into which this hundred was divided,strictly according to the duodecimal system of theScandinavians. Mr. Round compares the word" leet," of which he gives examples from Domesday,with the Danish Icegd, or division of the county formilitary conscription, and we may add the nearerform of the Icelandic leffi, meaning at first a smalllocal assembly, though ultimately the word was usedfor the third and last annual meeting of the Icelandiccommonwealth. Near Buckingham is Tingewick, andin the south of Bedfordshire isTingrith (Tingrye in1250). But East Angliais not divided into trithingsand wapentakes, as were parts which the Danes notonly ruled but settled even :Northamptonshire was notassessed at Domesday by carucates but by hides, likeWessex ; only the hides, Mr. Round finds, were takenin groups of fours, just as the Mercian shilling containedfour pence while ; Cambridgeshireis assessedfor the most part in terms of five hides, on the non-Danish system.