and remained for a time in exile in a monastery which is called Blandinium.¹ Wulfstan, archbishop of York, died; Osketel succeeded him.
In the 957^th year ▬ the Mercians and Northumbrians, despising King Eadwig, elected his brother Eadgar, who soon recalled the blessed Dunstan from exile; and, with Cenwald having died, he gave the bishopric of Worcester to him, and he was consecrated by Archbishop Odo. Louis, king of the Franks, son of King Radulf, died; Lothar succeeded him. Dominical letter D.
In the 958^th year the holy Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, passed away to Christ; Ælfsige, bishop of Winchester, succeeded him, and Brihthelm is ordained in his place.
In the 959^th year Ælfsige, archbishop of Canterbury, died of cold in the mountains of the Alps while going on to Rome for the pall. In the same year King Eadwig died and was buried at Winchester. His brother, Eadgar, is created monarch of the whole kingdom of the English, in the 17^th year of his age, the 510^th of the arrival of the English in Britain, and the 363^rd from the arrival of St Augustine. In that year Brihthelm, bishop of Dorset, is elected to the primacy of the see of Canterbury; but because he seemed less than suitable, he returned to his see by order of the king. Then the blessed Dunstan, bishop of Winchester, by the divine divine will and the advice of wise men, is created primate and patriarch of the first metropolis of the English; by whose teaching and learning King Eadgar, accomplishing many things, banished frivolous songs from the convents of secular clerks, and set up 40 monasteries for monks.
In the 960^th year the holy Dunstan set off for Rome, and received the pall from Pope John on the third indiction. On returning, then, he, by his prayers, obtained from the king that Oswald, a humble monk, the father’s brother’s son of his predecessor, Odo, would be ordained pontiff to the bishopric of Worcester. The holy man man, Oswald, was consecrated, therefore, by the blessed Dunstan.
In the 961^st year Illuilb king of Scots is slain, after whom King Dub reigned for four summers and a half, ¶born to Máel Coluim, wielding royal rights, the treacherous people of Moray killed him. He was slaughtered by their swords in the city of Forres. The sun hid its rays while he lay under a bridge, where he was hidden, and also discovered.
In the 962^nd year
In the 963^rd year the venerable abbot Æthelwold, trained by the blessed Dunstan, succeeded Brihthelm in the bishopric of Winchester. The holy Æthelwold, after the clerks had been expelled by order of King Eadgar, provided the old minster at Winchester with monks.
In the 964^th year Eadgar the peaceful, king of the English, took in marriage the daughter of Ordgar, ealdorman of Devon, Ælfthryth by name, after the death of her husband, Æthelwold, glorious ealdorman of the East Anglians. From her he received two sons, Eadmund and Æthelred. He had also previously had, from Æthelflæd the fair, daughter of the ealdorman, Ordmær, Eadweard, afterwards king and martyr, and by the holy Wulfthryth Edith, a virgin devoted to God. In the same year King Eadgar placed monks in New Minster and Middleton, appointing Æthelgar to the former and Cyneweard to the latter as abbots.
In the 965^th year Dub king of Scots is killed, after whom: for the same number of years also the son of Illuilb was king, Cuilén by name, he was a foolish man. It is related that he was cut down at in Lothian by Rhydderch because of the rape of his daughter, who the king took for himself.
In the 966^th year
In the 967^th year King Eadgar established nuns in the monastery of Romsey, which his grandfather, King Eadweard, had built, and the holy Merewenna as abbess.
In the 968^th year Ealdred, bishop at St Cuthberht in Chester-le-Street, died; Ælfsige succeeded him. Dominical letter D.
In the 969^th year Eadgar the peaceful, king of the English, commanded the holy bishops Dunstan of Canterbury, Oswald of Worcester, and Æthelwold, that, once the clerks had been expelled, monks should be placed in the greater monasteries throughout Mercia. The holy Oswald, carrying this out, put monks into the church of Worcester, and set over them Wynsige, a religious man. Cuilén king of Scots is destroyed, after whom: the renowned Cináed, is said to have reigned in Scotland, offspring of Máel Coluim, for twenty-four years. He is done for by darts at Fettercairn, cut off by craft, falling by the deceit of Fimb’hele, offspring of Conchobar.