A. 926. Also in the ninth year died Edward, king of the English. This was the end; his name and his pertinacity here ceased. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 81: The particulars recorded in this passage, concerning the battle of Holme, are ascribed, by Florence of Worcester and the Saxon Chronicle, to another battle, fought three years later. This caused Petrie to suppose, that the paragraph in question had slipped out of its real place.] [Footnote 82: Cambridge, in Gloucestershire.] [Footnote 83: Bambrough.] CHAP. V.--_Of the reign of king Athelstan, his wars and deeds._ A. 926. The year in which the stout king Athelstan gained the crown of the kingdom, was the nine hundred and twenty-sixth from the glorious incarnation of our Saviour. A. 939. Therefore, after thirteen years, a fierce battle was fought against the barbarians at Brunandune,[84] wherefore that fight is called great even to the present day: then the barbarian tribes are defeated and domineer no longer; they are driven beyond the ocean: the Scots and Picts also bow the neck; the lands of Britain are consolidated together, on all sides is peace, and plenty of all things, nor ever did a fleet again come to land except in friendship with the English. A. 941. Two years afterwards the venerated king Athelstan died. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 84: Brumby, Lincolnshire.] CHAP. VI.--_Of the reign of king Edmund._ After him Edmund succeeded to the neglected kingdom. A. 948. After seven years, therefore, bishop Wulfstan and the duke of the Mercians expelled certain deserters, namely, Reginald and Anlaf from the city of York, and gave them into the king's hand. In the same year died also queen Elfgiva, wife of king Edmund, and afterwards was canonized. In her tomb, with God's assistance, even to the present day, miracles are performed in the monastery called Shaftesbury. In the same period also died king Edmund on the solemnity of Augustine the Less, who also was the apostle of the English: and he held the kingdom six years and a half. CHAP. VII.--_Of the reign of king Edred._ Edmund's successor was Edred his brother, to whom all the Northumbrians became subject; and the Scots also give oaths of allegiance and immutable fidelity. Not long after these things he also departed in peace, on the birthday of the blessed pope and martyr Clement. He had held the kingdom nine years and half. CHAP. VIII.--_Of king Edwy._ His successor to the throne was Edwy, who, on account of his great personal beauty, was called Pankalus by the people. He held the sovereignty four years, and was much beloved. CHAP. IX.--_Of the reign of king Edgar._ A. 959. After this, Edgar was crowned, and he was an admirable king.[85] Moreover from the nativity of our Lord and Saviour was then completed the number of 973 years.[85] HERE HAPPILY ENDS THE FOURTH BOOK OF FABIUS ETHELWERD, QUESTOR AND PATRICIAN. FOOTNOTES: