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H SCOTTISH ANNALS
634
BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, III, 3 ; VOL. I, p. 131. 1
How the same king [Oswald] asked a bishop of
the Scottish
nation, and received Aidan ; and granted to him the seat of his
episcopate in the island of Lindisfarne.
The same Oswald, therefore, so soon as he received the
kingdom, desired that the whole nation over which he began to
rule should be imbued with the grace of Christian faith, of which
he had now made most thorough trial in the conquest of barbarians
; and sent to the elders 2 of the Scots, among whom
while in exile he had attained to the sacraments of baptism
with the knights who were with him, asking that there might
be sent to him a bishop, by whose teaching and ministry the
nation of Angles which he ruled might both learn the gifts of
faith in the Lord, and receive the sacraments.
And not at all more slowly did he obtain what he asked ;
for he received as bishop Aidan, a man of the highest meekness,
and piety, and moderation, and one having the zeal for God,
although not wholly according to knowledge. For he was
accustomed to observe Easter Sunday after his nation's custom,
which we have very often made mention of, from the
fourteenth day of the moon to the twentieth. For still at that
time the northern provinces of the Scots [of Ireland] and the
whole race of the Picts celebrated the Lord's Easter in this
manner, considering that in this observance they followed the
writings of the holy father and worthy of praise, Anatolius.
But if this be true every man of training can most easily learn. 3
634
BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, III, 5 ;
VOL. I, PP. 136-137. 4
Now they say that when king Oswald craved from the
province of the Scots a bishop who should administer to him
and to his nation the word of faith, there was sent first another
man, of austerer character and when ;
for some while he had
preached to the nation of the Angles and profited nothing, and
1 Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 158. Life of Eata, Raine's Hexh., i, 211-212. Fl.
of W., i, 17, s.a. 635. S. of D., H.D.E., i, 7 ; 17-20, s.a. 635.
2 " To the aldermen of the Scots," A. S. Version.
3 "
. Although . . learn," omitted by A.S. Version. Cf. Bede, H.E.,
III, 17 ; infra, p.a. 651.
In a letter to Wicred (Giles's Bede, i, 161) Bede alleges that the text of
Anatolius had been deliberately altered in some copies. Cf. references in
Plummer, Bede, ii, 191.
4
Cf, A.S. Vers., i, 162 ; 164,