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Trelleborg. By Poul Nørlund, with contributions by Knud Jessen, N. E. Nørlund, Gunnar Knudsen, Th. Mathiassen, C. J. Becker, M. Degerbøl. Nordiske Fortidsminder, vol. IV, 1. 10 × 13. Pp. 296. 186 illustrations, 57 plates [in Danish with résumé in English]. København, in commission Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1948. £2. 12s. 6d.

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page 81 note 1 In English by T. Mathiassen in Acta Archaeologica, XV, and here chapter xi, pp. 215–22.

page 81 note 2 Chapter xii, pp. 223–40, by C. J. Becker.

page 82 note 1 Chapter xi, pp. 181–8.

page 83 note 1 Chapter x, pp. 189–214, contains a very valuable list of similar place-names and an interpretation of the names Trelleborg and Trojborg by Gunnar Knudsen.

page 84 note 1 If we may add a minor desideratum, the indication of the exact limits of the excavated areas on the splendid plan plate LVII would have been a useful addition.

page 84 note 2 Biskupin has taught us how early in these regions the art of building defences in earth and wood was mastered.

page 84 note 3 For comparison with a Roman camp thearrangement of the barracks along four roads at right angles with four open courtyards in the Constantinian camp at Turnu Severin would have been a very instructive illustration.

page 85 note 1 Nørlund mentions himself the Slav marriages of Harold Bluetooth and of Sweyn Forkbeard.

page 85 note 2 New edition of Giraldus Cambrensis in Topographia Hibernie. Text of the first recension by O'Meara, John J., P.R.I.A. C. LII, 4, Dublin, 1949, p. 173Google Scholar: ‘dux Turgesius vocatus … totam incastellavit. Unde et fossata infinita alta nimis, rotunda quoque, et pleraque triplicia, castella murata et adhuc integra, vacua tamen et deserta. …’.