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66 SCOTTISH ANNALS
926
. . . And
kingdom
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, MS. D. 1
Sitric died, and king Ethelstan 2 assumed the
of the Northumbrians.
And he subjugated all the kings who were in this island :
and Constantin, king
firstly Howel, 3
king of the West Welsh ;
of the Scots, and Owen, king of Gwent, 4 and Aldred, son of
Adulf of Bamborough. 5
53-54.
1 Cf. s.a. 926, Fl. of W., i, 131 ; S. of D., ii, 124. S.a. 921, Hoved., i,
"
Compare W. of M., G.R., i, 147, after Sitric's death : Olaf, Sitric's
son, fled to Ireland, and Godfrey his brother to Scotland. The king's men
followed after them, being sent to Constantin, king of the Scots, and to
Eogan " [or Owen] " king of the Cumbrians, demanding back the fugitive
and declaring war.
"
The barbarians had not the courage to murmur against it, but without
demurring came to the place which is called Dacre, and yielded themselves
and their kingdoms to the king of the English.
' '
In gratitude for this agreement Constantin's son was instructed to be
baptized, and [Ethelstan] himself received him from the sacred font.
" But Godfrey escaped, during the preparations of the travellers.
..."
V. also Ann. of Ulster, s.a. 926 = 927.
The expulsion of Godfrey is placed under 927 by A.S.C., MSS. E, F ;
S. of D., H.R., ii, 93 : under 926 by Fl. of W., i, 130-131, who mentions it
simultaneously with the annexation of Northumbria by Ethelstan, previously
to the submission of the kings. So S. of D., H.R., ii, 124 ; cf. De Pr. Sax.
Adv., in S. of D., ii, 377.
According to Fl. of W., W. of M., De Pr. Sax. Adv., u.s., Godfrey was
the son of Sitric. But more probably he was his brother. Cf. Todd, War of
the Gaedhil, 279.
Sitric was Ethelstan's brother-in-law ; A.S.C., MS. D, s.a. 925.
2 " Who first of the kings of the English reduced all his enemies, and
obtained the lordship of the whole of Britain." S. of D., H.D.E., i, 63. De
"
Pr. Sax. Adv., in S. of D., ii, 372 : For he reduced to himself both Scotland
and Cumberland, and other provinces of islands."
"It is long to relate . . . what bounds [Ethelstan] placed to his empire
in Scotland " ; W. of M., G.P., 397. The Ann. of Lind., in M.G.H., SS.,
xix, 506, s.a. 920, say that Ethelstan " was the first to obtain the monarchy
of the whole of England," and immediately add, s.a. 924, " king Ethelstan
entered Scotland."
3
Probably a prince of Cornwall ; cf. Plummer, S.C., ii, p. viii. Compare
however W. of M., G.R., i, 142, infra, note.
4 Monmouthshire.
5
Fl. of W., i, 131, appears to misunderstand the phrase from Bebban
byrig, and changes the complexion of the whole passage? "All the kings
also of the whole of Albion he conquered in battle and put to flight, to wit
Howel, king of the West Britons ; then Constantin, king of the Scots ; Wuer
[i.e. Owen], king of Gwent. Aldred also, the son of Adulf, he drove out
from the royal city which in the English tongue is called
" Bamborough.
All these, when they saw that they could not oppose his vigour, sought
peace from him, and came together on the fourth before the Ides of July in