Sawyer 995, Anglo-Saxons.net, consultado el 13 de marzo de 2009.; Keynes, Atlas of Attestations, Table LXIX (1 of 1)
Sawyer 982, Anglo-Saxons.net, consultado el 13 de marzo de 2009.; Keynes, Atlas of Attestations, Table LXIX (1 of 1)
Sawyer 993, Anglo-Saxons.net, consultado el 13 de marzo de 2009.; Sawyer 994, Anglo-Saxons.net, consultado el 13 de marzo de 2009.; Keynes, Atlas of Attestations, Table LXIX (1 of 1)
See, for a list and discussion of Cnut's earls, Keynes, "Cnut's earls", pp. 43–88; the term was, by Cnut's reign, interchangeable with the Scandinavian word earl, which supplanted the former by the end of the 11th-century (Crouch, Image of the Aristocracy, pp. 46–50)
For a collection of such accounts see Panzer, Beowulf, vol. i, pp. 16–29; Axel Olrik noted the correspondence between Siward's genealogy and two others: Saxo Grammaticus's genealogy of King Sweyn Estridsson of Denmark; and the genealogy of Sweyn's brother Earl Bjorn recorded by John of Worcester (Olrik, 1908–1909, "Siward Digri", pp. 218–19, 234; Darlington, McGurk & Bray (eds.
See Rauer, Beowulf and the Dragon, pp. 128, 131, for discussion of the raven banner and the old man on the hill as Oðinn; Siward's dragon-slaying can be compared to the dragon-slaying of his namesake Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer
Aird, "Siward"; this account (see box) he story relates that Siward slew Tostig, and as a reward the king (Edward the Confessor) granted Siward the earldom of Huntingdon.
Aitchison, Macbeth, p. 89; the relationship is dependent on the Crínán, grandfather of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria being the same as Crínán of Dunkeld, something which is now in doubt; see Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 249–52 and n. 39
