Frithugar of Brand, Brand of Bældæg, Bældæg of Woden. This year Augustine and his companions came to England.
601.
This year Pope Gregory sent a pall into Britain for Archbishop Augustine; he also sent many divines to his assistance, and the Bishop Paulinus brought Edwin King of Northumberland to be baptized.
603.
This year Ægthan, King of the Scots, fought with the Dælreodi, and with Æthelferth, King of Northumberland, at Dægstane,[1] and almost the whole of his army was destroyed. Theodbald, the brother of Æthelferth, was slain there with all his troop. Never after durst any Scotch King lead an army against this people.
604.
This year Augustin consecrated two bishops, Mellitus and Justus: he sent Mellitus to preach baptism to the East Saxons, where there was a King named Sæbyrht, the son of Ricola the sister of Æthelbyrht, whom Æthelbyrht had establish-
- ↑ Dalston, Cumberland, according to Gibson: Turner (Hist. of the Anglo Saxons), supposes it to be Dawston, near Jedburgh.
