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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 77
returned with the same pomp. And as he entered it he is
reported to have said to his nobles that then only should any
of his successors be able to boast himself king of the English
when so many kings submitted to him, and he obtained a
display
of such honours. 1
971 x 975
DE PRIMO SAXONUM ADVENTU, IN S. OF D., VOL. II, p. 382.
First of the earls after Eric, the last king whom the
Northumbrians had, Osulf administered under king Edred all
the provinces of the Northumbrians.
Thereafter under king Edgar Oslac was appointed earl
over York and the districts pertaining to it ;
2 and Adulf ,
surnamed Yvelcild, was placed over the Northumbrians from
the Tees to Myreford. 3
These two earls along with Elfsi (who was bishop beside
St. Cuthbert) 4 conducted Kenneth, king of Scots, 5 to king
Edgar.
And when [Kenneth] had done him homage, king Edgar
and with great honour sent him back to
gave him Lothian ;
his own. 6
1 Cf. W. of M., G.R., i, 165 :
" [Edgar] brought to his court Kenneth,
king of the Scots ; Malcolm, king of the Cumbrians ; the Viking-chief Mascusius
; and all the Welsh kings, whose names were Dufnal, Giferth, Huual,
Jacob, Judethil : and he bound them to him with one oath for ever ; so that
they met him at the city of Chester, and he brought them in triumphal pro-
cession through the river Dee. For he placed them in one ship and made
them row, while he sat at the prow ; in this way displaying his royal magnificence,
in that he had the power of so many kings subject to him. Indeed
he is reported to have said that then only could his successors boast that they
were kings of the English, when they enjoyed so great a manifestation of
honour." Cf. W. of M., ii, pp. cxxix-cxxx.
2 "
Cf. A.S.C., MSS. D, E, F, s.a. 966 : And the same year Oslac succeeded
to the office of alderman."
3 The Firth of Forth. Skene would read Myreford ; C.S., i, 369.
" And afterwards, in
S. of D., H.R., ii, 197 confuses Adulf and Osulf :
the reign of Edgar, [Osulf] received as ally Oslac. Thereafter Osulf administered
the government in the northern region of the Tyne, and Oslac
over York and its territories. To these succeeded Waldeve the elder, who
had as successor his son Utred. . . . And in his place was substituted his
brother, Adulf Cudel. ..."
4
Elfsi was bishop of Lindisfarne (at Chester-le- Street) from 968 to 990 ;
S. of D., H.D.E., i, 78 ; H.R., ii, 130, 134.
5 Kenneth II reigned from 971 to 995.
6 "
Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., i, 467-468, s.a. 975 : Also at the same time bishop
Elfsi and earl Adulf conducted Kenneth, king of Scots, to king Edgar. And
when they had brought him to the king he received of the royal bounty many
gifts, among which [king Edgar] conferred upon him a hundred ounces
of purest gold, with many silken robes, ornaments and rings, with precious
stones ; and he gave besides to the same king the whole land which in the
mother-tongue is called Lothian, on this condition, that every year on the