[137] 470 A [7], 485 D [43], 486 E [46], 492 A [56].
[138] 470 A [7].
[139] 473 C [15], 478 D [27], 479 A [28], 483 B [37], 484 A [38], 487 C [47].
[140] 475 B [19], 478 D [27], 479 A [28], 480 B [30], 481 D [33], 482 C [35].
[141] Saxonica poemata, 473 E [16]; S. carmina, 485 E [43], 486 A [43]. Cf. what is said of Charles the Great, Einhard, c. 29: ‘barbara et antiquissima carmina, quibus ueterum regum actus et bella canebantur, scripsit memoriaeque mandauit. Inchoauit et grammaticam patrii sermonis.’ Of his son Louis the Pious on the other hand it is said: ‘poetica carmina gentilia, quae in iuuentute didicerat, respuit, nec legere, nec audire, nec docere uoluit,’ Theganus, Vita Hludouici, c. xx (Pertz, ii).
[142] 474 A [16], 485 E [43], 486 A [43], 497 E [71].
[143] 471 A [146] ter, 471 C [147], 487 C [47], 488 A [49].
[144] ‘In Saxonia et in Cornubia,’ 489 A [51].
[145] ‘In omni Saxonia et Mercia, et … in … Cornubia,’ 496 A, B [67].
[146] For cases in which it does include Northumbria see Bede, ii. 368.