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The author discusses the spelling of the place name in the Anglo-Saxon poem Brunanburh. He mentions variant spellings in the poem which appears in the "Anglo-Saxon chronicle," the possibility that variant spellings referred to different places, and alternate sources which also contain variant spellings.

Information about the 36th meeting of the Council of Europe's Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI) in London, England on October 6-7, 2008 is presented. Participants of the meeting included the legal advisers of the 47 member States of the Council of Europe and a number of observers from different states and organizations. The CAHDI discussed the issues involving public international law.

There are international recommendations that the environment (i.e. wildlife) is assessed for the potential impact of releases of ionizing radiation. The transfer of radionuclides to wildlife from media (e.g. soil, water) is usually described using the whole-organism concentration ratio (CR wo-media), and a number of assessment models use these values to estimate radiation exposure and risk to wildlife; however, there are many gaps in knowledge. This paper describes a study conducted in 2015–2016 to sample terrestrial wildlife, soil and water from two forests in north-eastern England. Sampling was targeted towards species representative of the International Commission on Radiological Protection's (ICRP) terrestrial Reference Animals and Plants (RAPs): Wild Grass (Poaceae family), Pine Tree (Pinaceae family), Earthworm (Lumbricidae family), Bee (Apidae family), Rat (Muridae family), Deer (Cervidae family) and Frog (Ranidae family); opportunistic sampling of plant and fungi species was also conducted. The dataset comprises stable-element concentrations for 30 elements, radionuclide activity concentrations for K-40 and Cs-137, and radionuclide and stable-element concentration ratios. These data have significantly increased the number of CR wo-media values available for the ICRP RAPs and will contribute to the development of the databases underpinning the ICRP's environmental protection framework. Data will be included in the international database of wildlife transfer parameters for radioecological models and hence are likely to contribute to model developments in the future. All data and supporting documentation are freely available from the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC; https://eidc.ac.uk/ , last access: 13 November 2020) under the terms and conditions of the Open Government Licence (Barnett et al., 2020 https://doi.org/10.5285/8f85c188-a915-46ac-966a-95fcb1491be6). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]