C. The Chartres MS.
D. Mommsen's critical text of the later revision, Nennius interpretatus, which he gives parallel to the Historia Brittonum.
| A | B | C | D |
| Hors et Hengist | Hors & Hengist | Cors et Haecgens | Hors et Hengist |
| filii Guictgils | filii Guictgils | filii Guictils | filii Guictgils |
| Guigta | Guitta | Guicta | Guigta |
| Guectha | Guectha | Gueta | Guectha |
| VVoden | VVoden | VVoden | Voden |
| Frealaf | Frealaf | Frelab | Frealaf |
| Fredulf | Fredulf | Freudulf | Fredolf |
| Finn | Finn | Fran | Finn |
| Frenn | |||
| Fodepald | Fodepald | Folcpald | Folcvald |
| Geta | Geta | G[e]uta | Gaeta |
| qui fuit, ut aiunt, filius dei | qui fuit, ut aiunt, filius dei | qui sunt [sic], ut aiunt, filius dei | Vanli |
| Saxi | |||
| Negua |
MS Cotton Vespasian B. VI (9th century) contains a number of Anglo-Saxon genealogies and other lists revised up to the period 811-14[[326]]. The genealogy of the kings of Lindsey in this list has the stages from Woden to Geat. This genealogy is also found in the sister list in the 9th century MS at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MS C.C.C.C. 183).
A similar list is to be found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (entered under the year 547). But there it is appended to the genealogy of the Northumbrian kings. This genealogy has been erased in the oldest MS (Parker, end of the 9th century) to make room for later additions, but is found in MSS Cotton Tiberius A. VI and B. I.
| Cotton (Vespasian) MS. | Corpus MS. | A.-S. Chronicle |
| UUoden Frealafing | Woden Frealafing | Woden Freoþolafing |
| Frealaf Frioðulfing | Frealaf Frioþowulsing (sic) | Freoþelaf Freoþulfing |
| Frioðulf Finning | Freoþowulf Godwulfing | Friþulf Finning |
| Finn Goduulfing | Finn Godulfing | |
| Godulf Geoting | Godwulf Geating | Godulf Geating |
The Fodepald or Folcpald who, in the Historia Brittonum, appears as the father of Finn, is clearly the Folcwalda who appears as Finn's father in Beowulf and Widsith. The Old English w (ƿ) has been mistaken for p, just as in Pinefred for Winefred in the Life of Offa II. In the Vespasian MS and in other genealogies Godwulf is Finn's father. It has been very generally held that Finn and his father Godwulf are mythical heroes, quite distinct from the presumably historic Finn, son of Folcwalda, mentioned in Beowulf and Widsith: and that by confusion Folcwald came to be written instead of Godwulf in the genealogy, as given in the Historia Brittonum. I doubt whether there is sufficient justification for this distinction between a presumed historic Finn Folcwalding and a mythical Finn Godwulfing. Is it not possible that Godwulf was a traditional, probably historic, king of the Frisians, father of Finn, and that Folcwalda[[327]] was a title which, since it alliterated conveniently, in the end supplanted the proper name in epic poetry?
III. THE STAGES ABOVE WODEN.
(2) WODEN TO SCEAF.