Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers a D 500 To 1286

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 926 Anglo-saxon Chronicle, MS. D.i . . . And Sitric died, and king Ethelstan 2 assumed the kingdom of the Northumbrians. And he subjugated all the kings who were in this island: firstly Howel,3 king of the West Welsh; and Constantin, king of the Scots, and Owen, king of Gwont,4 and Aldred, son of Adulf of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 926 Anglo-saxon Chronicle, MS. D.i . . . And Sitric died, and king Ethelstan 2 assumed the kingdom of the Northumbrians. And he subjugated all the kings who were in this island: firstly Howel,3 king of the West Welsh; and Constantin, king of the Scots, and Owen, king of Gwont,4 and Aldred, son of Adulf of Bamborough.5 1Cf. s.a. 926, Fl. of W., i, 131; S. of D., ii, 124. S.a. 921. Hovod., i, 53-54. Compare W. of M., G.R., i, 147, after Sitric's death: Olaf, Sitric's son, fled to Ireland, and Godfrey his brother to Scotland. The king's men followed after them, being sent to Constantin, king of the Scots, and to Eogan or Owen] king of the Cumbrians, demanding back the fugitive and declaring war. The barbarians had not the courage to murmur against it, but without . demurring came to the place which is called Dacro, and yinldod themselves and their kingdoms to the king of the English. In gratitude for this agreement Constantin's son was instructed to bo baptized, and Ethelstan] himself received him from the sacred font. But Godfrey escaped, during the preparations of the travellers. ... V. also Ann. of Ulster, s.a. 92B=927. The expulsion of Godfrey is placed under 927 by A.S.C., MSS. E, F; S. of D., H.R., ii, 93: under 926 by Fl. of W., i, 130-131, who mentions it simultaneously with the annexation of Northumbria by Ethelstan, previouslv to the submission of the kings. So S. of D., H.R., ii, 124; cf. Do 1'r. Sax. Adv., in S. of D., ii, 377. According to Fl. of W., W. of M., De Pr. Sax. Adv., u.s., Godfrey was the son of Sitric. But more probably he was his brother. Cf. Todd, War of the Gaedhil, 279. Sitric was Ethelstan's brother-in-law; A.S.C., MS. D, s.a. 925. 1 Who first of the kings of the English reduced all his enemies, a...