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64 SCOTTISH ANNALS
swallowed up Dathan, and covered over the company of
Abiram." i
? 915
HlSTORIA DE S. CUTHBERTO, IN S. OF D., VOL. I, PP. 208-209.
... All these vills 2
. . . bishop [Cutherd] gave to Elfred
[son of Brihtulfing], that he should be faithful to him and to
the congregation, and should render full service for them.
And this too he faithfully did, until king Ronald came with
a great multitude of ships and occupied the land of Adulf 's son
Aldred, who was beloved of king Edward, even as his father
Adulf was beloved of king Alfred. 3
Aldred therefore took to flight and went to Scotland, and
sought the aid of king Constantin, and brought him to battle
at Corbridge against king Ronald.
And in this battle, by influence of what sin I know not, the
heathen king was victorious, put Constantin to flight, routed
the Scots, and slew Elfred, St. Cuthbert's vassal, and all the
best of the Angles, excepting Aldred and his brother Utred. 4
208.
1
Psalms, CVI, 17.
2 In the neighbourhood of Durham and Hartlepool ; H. de S.C., ibid.,
3 For Adulf's death cf. infra, note ; for Aldred Adulfing, infra, s.aa.
921, 926.
4 After this victory Ronald divided St. Cuthbert's lands which lay
between the Wear and the Tees, and gave them to his followers, Scula and
Olafbald : H. de S.C., ibid., 209.
The lands between the Wear and the Derwent had been held by Edred,
son of Rixing, from the time when he " rode westward beyond the moun-
tains, and slew the prince Adulf, and seized his wife, in violation of the peace
and will of the people ; and took refuge in the protection of St. Cuthbert.
And there he abode three years, .... and paid rent faithfully, until the
aforesaid king Ronald gathered again his army and fought at Corbridge, and
slew Edred himself and a very great host of the Angles." Then Ronald
gave that part of the land of St. Cuthbert to Edred's sons ; H. de S.C.,
ibid., 210.
In all this nothing but the word " again " supports Arnold's theory
that there were two battles of Corbridge (S. of D., ii, pp. xxvi-xxx.)
Edred paid rent for three years after the slaying of Adulf ; and Adulf
died in 912, " in the Northumbrian borders," according to Ethelw., in M.H.B.,
520.
According to S. of D., H.D.E., i, 72, "... while Cutherd administered
the episcopate of Bernicia, a certain heathen king, Ronald by name, landed
in the districts of the Northumbrians with a large fleet; Immediately he
broke into York, and either slew or drove from their country all the best
inhabitants." Cf. De Mir. et Transl., Ill, in S. of D., i, 238. Now Cutherd
died in 915 ; H.D.E., i, 74.
The A.S.C., MSS. D, E, F, has under the year 923 (but probably " post-