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56 SCOTTISH ANNALS
744
SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, P. 38.
In the year 744 was fought a battle between the Picts and
the Britons. 1
750
CONTINUATION OF BEDE'S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, VOL. I,
p. 362. 2
In the year 750 Cuthred, king of the West Saxons, rose
against king Ethelbald and Angus. 3
Theudor 4 and Enred died.
Edbert added to his kingdom the plain of Kyle, with other
districts.
756, Mar.
SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA DUNELMENSIS ECCLESI.E, VOL.
I, p. 48, S.A. 757. 6
In the seventeenth year of [Cynewulf's] episcopate, 6 and
the twentieth of Edbert's reign, 7 the man of the Lord and priest
Baldred, who had led in Tyningham the life of an anchorite,
trod the way of the holy fathers, departing on the day 8 before
the Nones of March to Him who had refashioned him in the
likeness of his Son.
but Eata was the grand-uncle of Ceolwulf, A.S.C., A, B, C, D, s.a. 731, A, B,
"
C, D, E, s.a. 738, and when he received the kingdom he showed himself
well able and eager to hold and to rule the empire.
"
All his adversaries, therefore, were either made subject to him or
overthrown in war and all the ; surrounding kings, of Angles, of Picts, of
Britons, of Scots, not only held peace with him, but even rejoiced to pay
him honour."
1 The Pictish king Talorgan was slain in battle with the Britons ;
Cambr., s.a. [750]
Ann.
; Brut y Tywysogion, s.a. 750.
2
Cf. the battle of Burford, A.S.C., s.a. 752.
3 This is enigmatical, and the text is probably corrupt. S. of D., H.R.,
ii, 40, follows this passage, but omits " and Angus." For Angus cf. infra,
s.aa. .
753, 761.
4 The king of Strathclyde ; cf. Tigh., s.a. 752 ; Ann. Cambr., s.a. 750.
5 Cf. S. of D., ii, 41, s.a. 756, in the eighteenth year of Edbert's reign.
Cf., s.a. 756, Hoved-., i, 7 ; Arm. of Lind., in M.G.H., SS., xix, 505. For
stories about Baldred see Alcuin, Carmen, in Raine's York, i, 388-390.
6
Cynewulf was consecrated bishop of Lindisfarne in 737, according to
A.S.C., MSS. D, E, F.
7 Cf. supra, s.a. 740, note.
8 I.e. the 6th of March. Baldred's remains were pilfered by Alfred of
Durham ; S. of D., i, 88 ; i, 168, but no mention is made of the legend of
the triplication of his corpse.