From the year in which the Saxons came into Britain, and were received by Vortigern, to the time of Decius and Valerian, are sixty-nine years.
FOOTNOTES:
[249] And forty, according to Stevenson's new edition. The rest of this chronology is much contracted in several of the manuscripts, and hardly two of them contain it exactly the same.
[250] This list of the Roman emperors who visited Britain, is omitted in many of the MSS.
[251] V.R. Twenty-eight, twenty-one.
[252] Site unknown. See note at sec. 42, p. [404].
[253] Inis-gueith, or Gueith.
[254] The whole of this, as far as the end of the paragraph, is omitted in several MSS.
[255] Other MSS. Silvius.