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. p. 73, brothers Theobald and Stephen of two _brothers_, _Ibid._ p. 80. Blois. Though Stephen was the This loss of two kingdoms by the principal aggressor, it must not

## action of Lähelein is insisted be forgotten that Theobald, the

on throughout the poem, and the elder brother, was invited by reader should note the manner the Normans to become their Duke in which Lähelein, though only on the death of Henry I.; but on appearing in the Second Book, is arriving in Normandy, and finding constantly referred to; which that Stephen had already seized seems to indicate that the writer the crown of England, Theobald attached a special importance to resigned his claim to the Duchy this character, cf.