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' It is not improbable that the story he had heard of the massacre was the Oxford story, as it will be shown further on that he had a friend in Oxford who might have told him of the tradition of the place. The burning by fire was at least a very rare form of capital punish- ment at this time, even if any example could be found; but the Danes being burned in the tower of S. Frideswide would be just the kind of story which would be handed down with horror, and which would become transformed into ...the shape in which Henry narrates it.
It is very singular that, so far as has been observed, no other example of a single massacre on S. Brice's Day has been recorded than this one at Oxford, and it will be seen that we only obtain that through the chance circumstance of the charter of King Ethelred having been preserved. It is perhaps too much to hope that Oxford was the only place w'here the edict was put into force.
Having seen the manner in which William of Malmesbury compiles his Chronicle, there is no reliance to be placed upon the detail which he gives of the Danes having taken refuge in a tower, which differs ^ Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, Rolls Series, 1879, p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' It is not improbable that the story he had heard of the massacre was the Oxford story, as it will be shown further on that he had a friend in Oxford who might have told him of the tradition of the place. The burning by fire was at least a very rare form of capital punish- ment at this time, even if any example could be found; but the Danes being burned in the tower of S. Frideswide would be just the kind of story which would be handed down with horror, and which would become transformed into ...the shape in which Henry narrates it.
It is very singular that, so far as has been observed, no other example of a single massacre on S. Brice's Day has been recorded than this one at Oxford, and it will be seen that we only obtain that through the chance circumstance of the charter of King Ethelred having been preserved. It is perhaps too much to hope that Oxford was the only place w'here the edict was put into force.
Having seen the manner in which William of Malmesbury compiles his Chronicle, there is no reliance to be placed upon the detail which he gives of the Danes having taken refuge in a tower, which differs ^ Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, Rolls Series, 1879, p.
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