Excerpt from Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts From the Others
But no critic will admit the personality of Fear, who is said to have arrived in 501 in the place called (of course, after himself) Portsmouth. Clearly the existence of such a hero as Port was a presumption that arose out of a mistaken notion of the name Portsmouth, a name which embodies the Latin word portus, a harbour.
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