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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 47
places in which the patriarchs or the apostles were, know
them only from the things which they have learned by reading.
Now Adamnan offered this book to king Aldfrid, and
to lesser men also to read.
through his bounty it was given
Of [his bounty] also the wTiter was himself presented with
many gifts, and sent back to his country. 1
698
BEDE, HISTOBIA ECCLESIASTICA, RECAPITULATIO, V, 24 ;
VOL. I, P.
a
355.
In the year 698 Berctred, royal leader 3 of the Northumbrians,
was slain by the Picts.
? 710
BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESTASTICA, V, 21 ; VOL. I, PP. 332-333,
345-346. 4
How abbot Ceolfrid sent to the king of the Picts architects
for a church, and also a letter concerning the catholic Easter and
the tonsure.
At this time 5 Nechtan, king of the Picts who inhabit
the northern parts of Britain, warned by frequent study of
the ecclesiastic writings, renounced the error by which he and
1 The following chapters, 16 and 17 (i, 317-319,) are devoted to extracts
from Bede's De Locis Sanctis, which is based upon Adamnan 's : cf. Ad.,
D.L.S., I, 2-3, 7, 22, 23 ; II, 1, 2, 8, 9, 10. Adamnan's work is printed in
Migne, 88, 779-814. For other editions, v. Plummer, Bede, ii, 303-304.
2 This annal is omitted by MSS. C, W, O 2 - 4 , D, etc. Plummer, ibid.,
note 13 ).
Tighernach, s.a. 698, and Ann. of Ulst., s.a. 697, say that Berctred was
the son of Beornheth cf. ; Eddi, XIX, supra, 671 X 672.
Cf. A.S.C., s.a. 699, MSS. D, E: "In this year the Picts slew Bert
the alderman," intending apparently to identify Berctred with the Bert
(Berctus) who led an expedition into Ireland in 684; Bede, H.E., IV, 26;
i, 266 ; v. supra, s.a. 685, note.
"
H. of H., 109, expands this idea : In the eleventh year of Ine's reign,
Bert, the aforesaid consul of Egfrid, felt the curses of the Irish whose churches
he had destroyed, even as his lord had felt them. For as king Egfrid entered
the land of the Picts and there met his destruction, so he also entered the land
of the same people to avenge his lord, and was slain by them.
"
About this time were 700 years from the Lord's incarnation."
Ine became king of the West Saxons in 688 ; A.S.C., MSS. A, B, C, E, F.
3 dux ; alderman ?
4 Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 468, 470. Cf. H. of H., 112.
5 The previous chapter relates the death of abbot Hadrian, placing it
in 709 ; V, 20 ; i, 330. Perhaps 710 is the correct date ; cf. V, 19, 24 ; i, 322,
356 ; ii, 329.
Nechtan mac Derilli succeeded his brother Brude, who died in 706.
Nechtan was deposed in 726, but regained the kingdom for a short time
two years later. He died in 732. Tigh,