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? 921
FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 65
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, MS. A, S.A. 924. l
And then 2 the king of the Scots, 3 and all the people of the
Scots, and Ronald, 4 and the sons of Adulf, 5 and all those who
dwell in Northumbria, as well English as Danes and Northmen
and others ; and also the king of the Strathclyde Welsh, 6 and
all the Strathclyde Welsh, chose [king Edward] for father and
for lord. 7
dated some four or five years " ; Plummer, S.C., ii, 130-131) : "In this
year king Ronald won York." S. of "
D., H.R., ii, 93 : In the year 919
Ronald [sic lege] broke into York." The invasion is mentioned without
definite date in the Ser. Reg., in S. of D., ii, 391. The Ann. of Ulst. place
it in 917 = 918.
1 At the end of this passage in MS. A half a page is left blank ; then a
new hand begins.
MS. F,
s.a. 924 :
E. & PI., a.l.
"
In this year was king Edward chosen as father and
and by king Ronald, and
as lord by the king of the Scots, and by the Scots ;
by all the Northumbrians and ; also the king of the Strathclyde Welsh, and
by all the Strathclyde Welsh." Cf. s.a. 921, Fl. of W., i, 129-130 ; S. of
D., H.R., ii, 123 : and s.a. 917, Hoved., i, 53.
For the confusion in the dating of this part of the Chronicle cf . Plummer,
S.C., ii, 116, 130, 131.
The previous annal in the Chronicle, MSS. D, E, F, s.a. 923, gives
Ronald's invasion of York ; the annal following, MSS. A, F, s.a. 925 (B, C,
D, E, s.a. 924) is of Edward the Elder's death. Fl. of W., i, 130, places
Edward's death in 924, and says that he " most gloriously ruled over all the
peoples inhabiting Britain, of Angles, Scots, Cumbrians, Danes and Britons
alike." So S. of D., H.R., ii, 123; Hoved., i, 53. Cf. the notice of his
took into subjection the kings
succession, Fl. of W., i, 117, s.a. 901 : "he
of the Scots, the Cumbrians, the Strathclyde
West Britons." So, s.a. 899, S. of D., ii, 121 ;
Welsh, and all those of the
Hoved., i, 50. Cf. W. of M.,
G.R., i, 135.
None of these authorities is either contemporary or impartial.
2 After Edward's visit to Nottingham and Bakewell, before midsummer
MS. A, ibid.
3 Constantin III.
4 "
Ronald, king of the Danes," Fl. of W., S. of D., Hoved., u.s.
The death of the elder Ronald took place in 921 ; Ann. of Ulst., s.a.
920 = 921. His successor Sitric (king of Northumbria, A.S.C., D, s.a. 925)
is spoken of as king in A.S.C., E, s.a. 921.
Ronald Godfreyson was one of the kings driven out of Northumbria in
944, A.S.C., MSS. A, B, C, D ; cf. E, F. He is first mentioned in the Chronicle
under the year 942, MS. A ; 943, MS. E, when he was baptized, with king
Edmund as sponsor.
5 Akfred and Utred ; supra, s.a. 915.
6 MS. F, Lat., reads: "and by Strathclyde, king of the Welsh";
Plummer, S.C., i, 104, ii, 90. The king of Strathclyde at this time was Constantin's
brother Donald, yo
7 "
And made a firm treaty with him," add Fl. of W., S. of D., Hovsd.,