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82 SCOTTISH ANNALS
1018
SIMEON OF DURHAM, HCSTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, PP. 155-156. 1
Aldhun, bishop of Durham, died.
A great battle was fought at Carham between the Scots and
the Angles, between Utred, Waldeve's son, the earl of North-
umbria, 2 and Malcolm ; king of Scots, the son of Kenneth. And
with him in the battle was Owen the Bald, 3
Strathclyde.
? 1031
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, MSS. E, F,
king of the men of
S.A. 1031.*
In this year king Cnut went to Rome.
And the same year 5 he went to Scotland, and the Scots'
people," prayed to be released from life, and " after a few days, caught by
disease, he died, after passing twenty-nine years in the episcopate." He
became bishop in 990, according to Fl. of W., i, 149 ; so S. of D., H.R., ii,
134. After his death the see was vacant for " nearly three years," S. of D.,
H.D.E., i, 85 ; cf. Fl. of W., i, 183 : and his successor was appointed in 1020 ;
S. of D., H.R., ii, 156,
1
Hoved., i, 87 : "A great battle was fought between Angles and Scots
at Carham."
Ann. of Durh., s.a. 1018, in M.G.H., SS., xix, 507
"
: Aldhun, bishop
of Durham, died.
" A comet widely spreading flames was seen throughout Northumbria
for thirty nights.
" When thirty days after this had passed, there was fought at Carham
that famous battle, between Northumbrians and Scots, in which nearly the
whole people of St. Cuthbert perished ; and among them were also eighteen
priests (sacerdotes) who had inadvisedly mixed themselves up with the war.
And hearing this the aforesaid bishop ended in death his grief and his life."
2 Utred was slain in 1016 ; v. supra, s.a.
3
Eugenius Calvus. Upon his death in ? 1018 (cf. Ann. Cambr., s.a.
1015) Duncan succeeded to the throne of Strathclyde.
4 MS. D, s.a. 1031
"
: In this year king Cnut went to Rome. And so
soon as he came home he went to Scotland ; and the Scots' king submitted
to him, and became his man. But that he held for only a little while." Cf.
Ann. of Wav., in A.M., ii, 179. H. of H., 188 :
Cnut."
" in the fifteenth year of king
" Cnut set out for Rome in the fifteenth year
W. of M., G.R., i, 221 :
" "
of his reign ; [cf. supra, s.a. 1018, note ;] and there he stayed for some
days ; and after redeeming his sins by alms given among the churches "
[cf. H. of H., 188] " he returned by ship to England. And presently upon
a rebellion of Scotland and her king Malcolm he led an expedition thither,
and subdued them with little difficulty."
5 MS. F inserts " when he came home."
Cnut's visit to Rome took place in 1027 (cf. Vita Chunradi Salici Imp.,
in Bouquet, xi, 3.) But he did not return to England immediately ; see his
letter to the English nation, in Fl. of W., i, 185-189 ; W. of M., G.R., i, 221-
224. From 1028 to 1029 he was occupied in Norway, according to A.S.C.,
MSS. D, E, F. MS. C does not give the date of his return, and MS. A appears
to place it in 1031.