Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Sources.

St Gildas, On the ruin and conquest of Britain.

St Patrick's Confession, https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english#

St Patricks Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus
https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/epistola_english#undefined

Anglo-Saxons chronicles

The illustrated Bede

Asser's life of King Alfred.

Orkneyinga Saga, The history of the Earls of Orkney.

The Laws of Hywel Dda
maryjones.us/ctexts/laws_hywel_dda.html

Early sources of Scottish history, Alan Orr Anderson.

Annals of Ulster.

References

Reference 1 Gildas on the ruin and conquest of Britain, page 15 verse 19

Reference 2 St Patrick's Confession

Reference 3 St Patricks Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus

Reference 4 The illustrated Bede, page 167

Reference 5 Page 67 Asser's life of Alfred

Reference 6 The Orkney saga page 26

Reference 7 The Laws of Hywel Dda

Reference 8 Annals of Ulster Year U937
https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100001A/index.html

Reference 9 Early sources of Scottish history, page 511, Tigernach, annals vol, XVii, p.349.