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Old English Chronicles

by J. A. Giles

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Chap. III Of Ceolwulf, King of the West-Saxons, and of His Continued Wars

A. 597. At the end of one year, Ceolwulf began to reign over the Western English.26 His family was derived from Woden; and so great was his ferocity that he is said to have been always at war, either with his own nation or with the Britons, or the Picts or Scots.

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26 West-Saxons is the more correct term; but Ethelwerd often uses the more general name Angles or English, for all the tribes settled in England.

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