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Early Britain

CHAPTER XIX
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There was a man hight Hwita, bee-master at Hatfield, and he had a daughter Tate, mother of Wulfsige, the bowman; and Wulfsige's sister Lulle has Hehstan to wife, at Walden.

Wifus and Dunne and Seoloce are inborn at Hatfield.

Duding, son of Wifus, lives at Walden; and Ceolmund, Dunne's son, also sits at Walden; and AEthelheah, Seoloce's son, also sits at Walden.

And Tate, Cenwold's sister, Maeg has to wife at Welgun; and Eadhelm, Herethryth's son, has Tate's daughter to wife.

Waerlaf, Waerstan's father, was a right serf at Hatfield; he kept the grey swine there.
In the west, and especially in Cornwall, the names of the serfs were mainly Celtic,--Griffith, Modred, Riol, and so forth,--as may be seen from the list of manumissions preserved in a mass-book at St.Petroc's, or Padstow.


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