In the 915^th year Wærferth, holy bishop of the Hwicce—that is, of Worcester—died, and Æthelhun succeeded him. Æthelflæd built ¶Eddisbury and Warwick.
In the 916^th year the most invincible king, Eadweard, took in Bedford into his dominion, and commanded that a town be founded in the southern section of the River Ouse. Æthelflæd built Chirbury and Weardbyrig, and Runcorn.
In the 917^th year Æthelflæd sent an army into Wales and, after the Welsh had been vanquished, broke down Llan-gors,¹ where the wife of the king of the Welsh was captured with 24 men and led into Mercia.
In the 918^th year Æthelflæd stormed Derby and occupied it: she lost 4 of the bravest ealdormen there.
In the 919^th year Æthelflæd conquered Leicester, and afterwards died at Tamworth.
In the 920^th year King Eadweard disinherited the daughter of his sister, Æthelflæd— that is, Ælfwynn. In that year the king built Cledemutha. King Sihtric slighted Devonport. Charles, who was also Martel, destroyer of churches, king ¶of the Franks, son of Louis, son of Charles the Bald, died.
In the 921^st year the king of the Scots with all his people, and Ragnall king of the Danes dwelling in Northumbria, and King Sihtric did homage to King Eadweard.
In the 922^nd year King Æthelweard, brother of King Eadweard, died. Wilferth succeeded to Æthelhun.
In the 923^rd year
In the 924^th year Eadweard, with the epithet ‘the Elder’, most invincible king of the English, Danes, Cumbrians, ▬▬▬▬,² and Britons, died. His son, Æthelstan, succeeded him, consecrated by Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury.
In the 925^th year the vigorous king, Æthelstan, gave his sister to Sihtric, king of the Northumbrians. Wigred is consecrated bishop of Lindisfarne.
In the 926^th year King Sihtric died, whose kingdom Æthelstan annexed to his realm, after Guthfrith had been expelled. Also, he vanquished in battle Hywel, king of the Britons, and Causantín, king of the Scots, and Gwer, king of the men of Gwent and put them to flight: they, seeking peace from him, concluded, with an oath, a lasting agreement with him.
In the 927^th year
In the 928^th year
In the 929^th year on the death of Wilferth, bishop of the Hwicce, Cenwald succeeded.
In the 930^th year
In the 931^st year
In the 932^nd year the holy Frithestan, bishop of Winchester, ordained as bishop in his place ¶Byrnstan, a religious man.
In the 933^rd year the holy Frithestan died. Eadwine, brother of King Æthelstan, perished at sea.
In the 934^th year King Æthelstan ravaged Scotland with a land force as far as Dunottar and Wertermore,³ and with a naval force, indeed, as far as Caithness, because Causantín broke the terms of the agreement. The holy Brynstan, bishop of ¶Winchester, died.
In the 935^th year the monk, Ælfheah, a relative of the blessed Dunstan, received the bishopric of Winchester.
In the 936^th year
In the 937^th year Óláfr, king of Ireland, enters the mouth of the River Humber with 615 ships, and King Æthelstan and his brother Eadmund came to meet him at Brunanburh; and, when battle was engaged, they slew 5 lesser kings and 7 earls, ¶and returned in triumph.
In the 938^th year
In the 939^th year Rudolf, king of the Franks, son of Conrad, duke of Burgundy, died.
In the 930^th /\ year King Æthelstan died, on Wednesday 27 October, in the 14^th indiction, and was buried at the town of Malmesbury; his brother Eadmund succeeded him.
In the 941^st year the Northumbrians, laying aside the fealty which they had sworn to Eadmund, chose Óláfr, king of the Norwegians, as their king. He, coming to Northampton, besieged it; and, achieving nothing, turned the army to Tamworth. When he was returning—after everything had been ravaged—King Eadmund came to meet him, and battle would soon have been joined if the two archbishops, Odo and Wulfstan, had not calmed them. Once peace had been concluded, therefore,