[319]. Bede, Hist. Ec. B. iii. c. iv. Tighernac has at 632 ‘Inis Metgoit fundata est,’ but he antedates Anglic events three years.
[320]. Denique omnes nationes et provincias Brittaniæ, quæ in quatuor linguas, id est, Brettonum, Pictorum, Scottorum, et Anglorum divisæ sunt, in ditione accepit.—B. iii. c. vi.
[321]. Tighernac has at 639, recte 642, simply ‘Cath Osuailt contra Panta, in quo Osualt cecidit,’ which rather implies that he was the attacking party.
[322]. 642, recte 645, Cath Ossueius inimun (between him) et Britones.
[323]. Bede, B. iii. c. xvi.
[324]. Ib. c. xvii.
[325]. Bede, B. iii. c. xxiv.
[326]. B. ii. c. xiv. There is a slight variation in the expression. In the one case it is ‘regio quæ vocatur Loidis,’ and in this simply ‘regio Loidis.’
[327]. Bede says that ‘prope fluvium Winuaed pugnatum est,’ and ‘Hoc autem bellum rex Osuiu in regione Loidis tertio decimo regni sui anno, decimo septimo die kal. Decembrium cum magna utriusque populi utilitate confecit.’
The continuator of Nennius, ‘Et ipse (Osguid) occidit Pantha in Campo Gaii et nunc facta est Strages Gai campi et reges Britonum interfecti sunt qui exierant cum rege Pantha in expeditione usque ad urbem quæ vocatur Judeu. Tunc reddidit Osguid omnes divitias quæ erant cum eo in urbe, usque in Manau, Pende et Penda distribuit ea regibus Britonum, id est, Atbret Judeu. Solus autem Catgabail rex Guenedote regionis cum exercitu suo evasit de nocte consurgens; qua propter vocatus est Catgabail Catguommed.’[Catguommed.’]—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 13.