| Historia Brittonum[[321]]. MS Harl 3859. | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. MSS Cotton Tib. A. VI. and B.I.[[322]] | ||
| Penda | Penda | Pybbing | |
| Pubba | Pybba | Creoding | |
| Creoda | Cynewalding | ||
| Cynewald | Cnebbing | ||
| Cnebba | Iceling | ||
| Icel | Eomæring | ||
| Eamer | Eomær | Angelþeowing | |
| Ongen | Angelþeow | Offing | |
| Offa | Offa | Wærmunding | |
| Guerdmund | Wærmund | Wihtlæging | |
| Guithleg | Wihtlæg | Wodening | |
| Gueagon | |||
| Guedolgeat | |||
| [U]Uoden | |||
II. THE STAGES ABOVE WODEN.
(1) WODEN TO GEAT.
The stages above Woden are found in two forms: a short list which traces the line from Woden up to Geat: and a longer list which carries the line from Geat to Sceaf and through Noah to Adam.
The line from Woden to Geat is found in the Historia Brittonum, not with the other genealogies, but in § 31, where the pedigree of the Kentish royal family is given, when the arrival of Hengest in Britain is recounted. Notwithstanding the dispute regarding the origin and date of the Historia Brittonum, there is a pretty general agreement that this Woden to Geat pedigree is one of the more primitive elements, and is not likely to be much later than the end of the 7th century[[323]]. The original nucleus of the Historia Brittonum was revised by
Nennius in the 9th century, or possibly at the end of the 8th[[324]]. The earliest MS of the Historia, that of Chartres, belongs to the 9th or 10th century—this is fragmentary and already interpolated; the received text is based upon MS Harleian 3859, dating from the end of the 11th century[[325]], or possibly somewhat later.
I give the pedigree in four forms:
A. The critical text of the Historia Brittonum as edited by Th. Mommsen (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auct. Antiq., Chronica Minora, III, Berolini, 1898, p. 171).
B. MS Harl. 3859, upon which Mommsen's text is based, fol. 180.