Page:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu/100

xcii PEEFACE. Oswald, and Osway, according to Bede, had taken refuge with the Picts or Scots, and remained in exile during the whole of the reign of Edwin. We know from Bede that Oswald took refuge in lona among the Columban monks of the Scottish race. Eanfrid seems to have been received by the Pictish king, and to have married a Pictish princess, whose son afterwards reigned over the Picts. After a reign of seventeen years, Edwin was slain in battle by Cead- walla, king of the Britons, who had invaded his territories in conjunction with Penda, king of the Mercians. The battle in which he was slain was fought, according to Bede, on 12th October 633, at a place which he calls Haethfelth, supposed to be Hatfield, in the AVest Biding of Yorkshire ; but in the additions to the " Historia Britonum," it is called the battle of Meicen. On the death of Ed^vin, Eanfred, the son of Ethelfred, was recalled, and placed over Bernicia, but was slain by the British king after a year, who was in his turn slain in battle by Oswald at a place called by Bede, Denisesbuma, or Hefenfelth, near the Roman wall, but which, in the additions to the " Historia Britonum," is called the battle of Catscaul. Although Bede does not name the British king who was slain in this battle, he cer- tainly implies that it was the same Ceadwalla who slew King Edwin in the previous year ; but Tigher- nac seems to indicate that they were different per- sons, for he calls the king who fought with Edwin " Con, Rex Britonum," while he terms the king