dicitur Ethandun, &
pugnans uicit, qui metuentes obsidibus datis iurauerunt se a regno exituros, &
rex eorum Godrun futurum se Christianum promisit.
A[nno] dcccolxxoviiio Godrun baptizatus est
quem rex Alueredus de sacro fonte suscepit, & dedit ei postea
Estangliam in qua Sanctus Ædmundus regnauerat, & uocauit eum Athelstan. Karolus Caluus rex
Francorum2obiit.
A[nno] dcccolxxoixo nouus paganorum exercitus in Angliam ueniens mansit in ¶Occiditur Constantius3 rex Scottorum
Fulenham iuxta fluuium Tamesię. Rex Scotorum Het occiditur, post quem Grig sua iura gerens annis deca :/
A[nno] dcccolxxxo Godrun cum suis inhabitare cępit Estangliam. Exercitus qui
uenerat in Fulenham
mare transiit, & apud Gant uno anno permansit. Ludouicus
rex Francorum filius Karoli Calui obiit.
A[nno] dcccolxxxoio idem exercitus
ueniens in Franciam bellum intulit & inuenit. Hiis diebus mul
ta Francorum
monasteria desolata sunt. Nam & fratres cenobii Sancti Benedicti ossa ipsius de
tumulo
eruentes huc illucque discurrebant.
A[nno] dcccolxxxoiio idem
exercitus uenit per fluuium Mese in Franciam, & ibidem hyemauit. Rex
Alueredus
nauali prelio naues paganorum uicit, duabus comprehensis.
A[nno] dcccolxxxoiiio predictus exercitus occupans Cundoth ibidem grassatur per annum unum. Rex
Alueredus ut supradictum est occisis Iwar & Haldene uastatas Norhumbrię
partes cępit incolere.
Tunc Sanctus Cuthbertus abbati Edredo per uisionem
assistens precepit ut episcopo & toti Anglorum & Danorum gen
ti diceret,
quatinus Guthredum filium Ardecnut quem Dani uendiderant in seruum cuidam uiduę apud
Wi
tingeham - dato redemptionis precio redimerent, & in regem super Northumbros
leuarent quod & factum est
& regnauit super Eboracum, Egbertus uero ultra
Tinam. Tunc instaurata est sedes in Cuncacestre
quę prius fuerat in
Lindisfarnia.
A[nno] dcccolxxxoiiiio Marinus papa dona multa inter quę &
particulam ligni crucis Domini Alueredo regi
Anglorum misit, & pro eius amore
scolam Saxonum ab omni tributo & thelone liberauit.
A[nno] dcccolxxxovo supradictus paganorum exercitus diuisus est in duas partes, quarum una in
orientalem seces
sit Franciam, altera in Angliam rediens Rouecestriam obsedit, quam
rex Alueredus ab obsidione deie
cit. Misit rex Alueredus naualem exercitum ad
defensionem Estanglię, ubi naues pyraticę xvi inuentę
sunt & comprehensę in
Sturemutha. Redeuntes uero magno exercitui paganorum obuiarunt, & cum eis
con
gressi uicti sunt. Eodem anno Karolus rex Francorum in uenatione apri dentibus
laceratur, qui Ludouico
fratri suo succederat. Erat autem pater eorum Ludouicus
frater Iudithę reginę, quam rex Aðelwlfus duxerat. Obiit Marinus p.6
A[nno] dcccolxxxovio paganorum exercitus de orientali Francia in occidentalem
rediit, & per flumen Secanum \Sequanam/ perue
nit Parisius, & obsidens ciuitatem anno uno
nichil preualuit. Rex Alueredus Lundoniam obsidens cepit,
uenientibus ad eum
Anglis & fugientibus Dacis, qui Eðelredo Merciorum comiti restauratam com
A[nno] dcccolxxxoviio paganorum exercitus Parisius deserens iuit per Secanum ¶mendauit ciuitatem.
usque ad Marnam, inde ad Caedzi
ubi per annum grassantes ostium fluminis Iorna intrauerunt,
ibique per annum magno
regionis dampno morati sunt. Karolus rex Francorum ab Ernulfo filio fratris
sui de
regno expulsus post xl dies obiit. Tunc diuisum est regnum Francorum in partes v. Idem
Ernulfus obtinuit regiones ad orientem Rheni fluminis, Rodulfus mediterraneum
regnum,
Odo occidentale, Brengar & Wido omnes Longobardiam, &
omnes regiones ex illa parte montium.
A[nno] dcccolxxxoviiio rex
Alueredus construxit duo monasteria, unum monachorum in loco qui dicitur
Eaðelingeie, alteram sanctimonialium iuxta orientalem portam Sca\f/tesbiri, in quo filiam suam Eðel
giuam7 abbatiss\a/m8
constituit.
A[nno] dcccolxxxoixo Eðelredus Cant’ archiepiscopus obiit, cui
successit Plegmundus.
is called Edington, and fighting, was victorious. They, anxious
about the hostages which had been given, swore that they would withdraw from the
kingdom; and their king, Guthrum, promised that he would become a Christian.
In the 878th year Guthrum was baptized, whom King Ælfred adopted
from the holy font, and afterwards gave him East Anglia in which the holy Eadmund had
reigned, and called him Æthelstan. Charles the Bald, king of the Franks, died.
In the 879th year a new army of pagans, coming into England, stayed in
¶Custantín king of Scots is slain. Áed whitefoot,
Fulham on the Thames.
Áed king of Scots is slain, after whom: Giric, exercising his right, became :/
In the 880th year Guthrum with
his people began to inhabit East Anglia. The army which had come to Fulham crossed by
sea, and stayed on for one year at Ghent. Louis, king of the Franks, son of Charles the
Bald, died.
In the 881st year the same army, coming
into France, made and met with battle. During these days many Frankish monasteries were
abandoned: certainly the brothers of the house of St Benedict, digging up his bones from
the grave, ran about hither and thither.
In the 882nd
year the same army came into France by the River Meuse, and wintered there. King Ælfred
vanquished ships of the pagans in a naval battle, and two were captured.
In the
883rd year the aforesaid army, taking possession of
Condé, goes on the riot there for one year. King Ælfred, after Ívarr and Hálfdan had
been slain, as has been said above, began to settle the devastated parts of Northumbria.
Then St Cuthberht, coming forward through a vision to abbot Eadred, directed that he
should say to the bishop and to all the English and to the Danish people how they should
buy back Guthfrith son of Harthacnut, who the Danes had sold as a slave to a certain
widow at Whittingham, once the price for his redemption had been offered; and they
should raise him up as king over the Northumbrians. And this was done, and he ruled over
York, and Ecgberht, moreover, beyond the Tyne. Then the see which had earlier been in
Lindisfarne was re-established in Chester-le-Street.
In the 884th year Pope Marinus sent many gifts to Ælfred, king of the
English, among which was a small piece of wood from the cross of the Lord; and out of
his love he freed the English school from all tribute and toll.
In the 885th year the aforesaid army of pagans was divided into two
parts, of which one withdrew to eastern Francia, and the other, returning to England,
besieged Rochester; and King Ælfred dislodged them from the siege. King Ælfred sent a
naval force for the defence of East Anglia, where 16 pirate ships were found and
captured, in the mouth of the Stour. On the way back they met a great army of pagans
and, after they had engaged with them, were overcome. In the same year Charles, king of
the Franks, was mangled by the tusks of a boar while hunting; he had succeeded his
brother Louis. Now, their father, Louis, was the brother of Queen Judith, who King
Æthelwulf married. P[ope] Marinus died.
In the 886th
year the army of pagans returned from East Francia to the west, and reached Paris by the
River Seine
\Seine/
; and, beseiging the city for one year, gained nothing. King Ælfred,
beseiging London, took it, with the English coming to him and the Danes fleeing; he
entrusted ¶the restored city to Æthelred, ealdorman of the Mercians.
In the 887th year the army of pagans, abandoning Paris, went by the
Seine as far as the Marne, and from there to Chézy where, loitering for a year, they
entered the mouth of the River Yonne, and they stayed there for a year, to the great
harm of the region. Charles, king of the Franks, expelled from the kingship by Arnulf,
his brother’s son, died 40 days later. Then the kingdom of the Franks was divided into 5
parts: the same Arnulf took the regions to the east of the River Rhine, Rudolf the
inland realm, Odo the western, Berengar and Guido all Lombardy, and all
regions on the other side of the mountains.
In the 888th year King Ælfred built two monasteries, one for monks in the place which is
called Athelney, the other for nuns next the east gate at Shaftsbury, in which he
appointed his daughter Æthelgifu abbess.
In the 889th
year Æthelred, archbishop of Canterbury, died; Plegmund succeeded him.