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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 73
the white-tailed eagle : to enjoy the meat the greedy warhawk,
and the grey beast, wolf in the weald.
Before this, greater slaughter of folk was never yet made
in so far as books tell us,
in this island by the sword's edges ;
old sages, since hither from the east came Angles and Saxons
to land, over the broad waves : since the proud war-smiths
sought Britain, and the glory-seeking earls overcame the
Welsh and obtained the land. 1
941
SYMEON or DURHAM, HISTORIA REGUM, VOL. II,
p. 94.
In the year 941 Olaf laid waste the church of St. Baldred
and burned Tyningham ;
2 and presently he perished. 3
And hence the men of York harried the island of Lindisfarne,
and slew many men.
And the son of Sitrie, named Olaf, reigned over the Northumbrians.
4
940 x 946
HISTORIA DE S. CUTHBERTO, 28, IN S. OF D., VOL. I, p. 212. 5
Upon [Ethelstan's] death his brother Edmund succeeded
to the kingdom, collected again a great army, and hastened
to Scotland. Yet in going he turned aside to the oratory of
St. Cuthbert, bowed his knees before his tomb, and offered
prayers ; and commended himself and his men to God and
the holy confessor. . . .
6
1 The success of the battle was such that Ethelstan had peace till his
death, according to S. of D., H.D.E., i, 76. W. of M., G.R., i, 142. Cf.
Ethelw., in M.H.B., -520. After Ethelstan's death one of the Olafs was chosen
king of Northumbria ; A.S.C., MS. D, s.a. 941. This was Olaf Godfreyson,
according to De Pr. Sax. Adv., in S. of D., ii, 377-378.
2
Tyningham pertained to Lindisfarne or Durham ; cf. S. of D., i, 199,
supra, s.a. 830, note.
3 Olaf Godfreyson died in 942, according to A.S.C., MSS. D, E.
4
Cf. A.S.C., MS. D, s.a. 941. Fl. of W., i, 133 ; S. of D., H.R., ii, 125.
W. of M., G.R., i, 157.
In 944, according to A.S.C., Olaf Sitricson and Ronald Godfreyson
"two men of royal birth," E, F) were
('Hwo kings," MSS. A, B, C, D ;
expelled from Northumbria by Edmund of Wessex. Cf. Ethelw., in M.H.B.,
520, where they are called " deserters."
Cf. Fl. of W., i, 134. W. of M., G.R., i, 158. S. of D., H.R., ii, 94, s.a.
945 (cf. ibid., s.a. 943.) H. of H., 162.
5 Ethelstan died in 940, A.S.C., MSS. (A), B, C, D, E ; Edmund in 946,
A.S.C., MSS. A, B, C, D (E, F, s.a. 948.)
6
St. Cuthbert is again heavily bribed. Cf. S. of D., H.D.E., i, 76-77.