[382] ibid. VI. i. 207, 208; Weber, u. s. p. 553.
[383] 470 D-471 C [8-10].
[384] Chron. 860 A.
[385] ibid.
[386] e.g. Pauli, u. s. p. 51; S. C. H. i. 204.
[387] Ranke, u. s. VI. i. 57 ff.; Weber, u. s. pp. 460, 461.
[388] At the beginning of the story the conspirators plot ‘ne unquam Æthelwulf rex a Roma reuertens iterum in regnum reciperetur,’ i.e. the conspiracy is hatched while Æthelwulf is still at Rome; at the end the story of Eadburh seems to imply that it was the marriage with Judith which provoked the conspiracy.
[389] 472 D [13].
[390] Ranke, u. s. c. 2. Weber, u. s. pp. 450 ff.
[391] ‘renuntia … incesto … matrimonio; quia ista Iudith … proximo tibi affinis est sanguine,’ W. M. Gesta Pont. p. 13.