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50 SCOTTISH ANNALS
710 x 711
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, MSS. D, E, S.A. 710. *
. . . And in the same year Bertfrid the alderman fought
against the Picts, between Avon and Carron. 2
716
BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, V, 22 ; VOL. I, PP. 346-347. 3
How the monks of lona with the monasteries subject to them
began at the preaching of Egbert to celebrate the canonical Easter.
And not long afterwards 4 those monks of the Scottish
race also who dwell in the island of lona, along with the
monasteries which were subject to them, were persuaded
by God's providence to the canonical rite of Easter and of
the tonsure. For in the year from the Lord's incarnation
71 6, 5 in which Osred was slain and Coenred received the
helm of the Northumbrian kingdom, when Egbert, of whom
we have often made mention above, 6 had come to them from
Ireland, a father and priest beloved of God, and to be named
with all honour, he was received by them honourably and
with great joy.
And since he was both a most gracious teacher and a
most devoted doer of the things which he taught should be
done, he was gladly heard by all, and changed by pious and
assiduous exhortations that inveterate tradition of their
fathers, concerning whom we may quote the apostolic saying
1 H. of H., Ill, s.a. 710: "Then also the consul Bertfrid resisted the
pride of the Picts, fighting between Avon and Carron. And there a great
host of the Picts was laid low ; and he became avenger of king Egfrid and of
the consul Bert."
'* 2
Hcefe and Caere, D, E. Heve et Cere, H. of H.
"In the plain of 1 Manau," Tigh., s.a. 711; Ann. of Ulst., s.a. 710.
According to Skene, C.S., i, 270 (P. & S., Ixxxi F.A.B. ; of W., i, 91,) the Plain
of Manau is between these two rivers. Manau extended further ; the name
is preserved in Slamannan, Clackmannan and Dalmeny.
3 A.S. Vers., i, 470-475. Cf. Bede, H.E., Recap., V, 24, i, 356 ; A.S.C.,
all MSS., s.a. 716 ; in the same year also Fl. of W., i, 48 ; H. of H., 112.
"
Egbert, a holy man of the nation
and one who adorned the bishopric (sacerdotium) with mon-
Bede, Chron., in E.H.S. ed., ii, 203 :
of the Angles,
astic life also, in pilgrimage for the sake of the heavenly fatherland, in the
year from the Lord's incarnation 716 by pious preaching turned very many
provinces of the Scottish [Irish] nation to the canonical observance of the
time of Easter, from which observance they had too long deviated."
4 I.e. after the proclamation of Nechtan. H.E., V, 21 ; supra, s.a. ? 710.
5 So in H.E., V, 24, i, 356. In H.E., III, 5, i, 134, (supra, s.a. 565,)
Bede says that the Celtic Easter was still celebrated in lona in 715.
6 Cf. Ill, 4, supra, s.a. 565 ; III, 27, i, 192-194. In H.E., V, 9, i, 296-298,
Bede relates how Egbert wished to set out from Ireland, where he lived as