[412] See Chron. ii. 81, where I have shown that the Chronicle’s (and Asser’s) two years is too long. The Roman historian on the other hand cuts him off too rapidly: ‘reuersus ad proprium regnum … post paucos dies uitam finiuit,’ Liber Pontificalis, ii. 148.
[413] Birch, No. 436; K. C. D. No. 254. In Sim. Dun. i. 204, ‘Australes Saxones’ has the same meaning.
[414] See above, § 30.
[415] Birch, No. 454; K. C. D. No. 261.
[416] Conquest of England, pp. 73, 74.
[417] Birch, No. 395; K. C. D. No. 223; Stubbs, C. H. i. 172.
[418] Malmesbury has an interesting passage on the effects of Egbert’s foreign sojourn, G. R. i. 105.
[419] 472 B [12].
[420] Pauli, u. s. p. 79; following Lappenberg, i. 296; E. T. ii. 27. I think they have been misled by the Latin version of Alfred’s will, which, as I shall show (§ 64), is of no authority.
[421] ‘Ut iustum erat,’ adds Asser, 473 A [14].