[66] Generally identified with Oswestry (Oswald’s tree) in Shropshire.
[67] By Freeman: Norman Conquest, i., 36 (3rd ed.).
[68] Except parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire surrounding Dorchester.
[69] “A viro gentili nomine Ricberto” (Bede, Hist. Ecc., ii., 15).
[70] In some way which is not explained, Ethelhere was himself “the author of the war”. Possibly as suggested by Mr. Bates (Archæologia Aeliana, xix., 182–91), his marriage with a great niece of Edwin gave him some claim to the throne of Deira.
[71] That of Swithelm.
[72] The whole of this story about the so-called Dalfinus, Archbishop of Lyons, as related by Wilfrid’s biographer is encompassed with historical difficulties. See Bright’s Early English Church History, pp. 218 ff. (3rd ed.).
[73] An attempt to arrange the recurrences of Easter in a cycle of 19 years.
[74] The southern Irish conformed in 634; the northern Irish in 692; the northern Picts, 710; the monks of Iona, 716; the Britons in Wales, 768.
[75] Chiefly Celtic. See Bright’s Early English Church History, p. 237, n. 2.