Translation:The Annals of Wales B/8
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Notes[edit]
- ↑ Presumably, though not definitely, Pope Gregory the Great (died 604). The C text explicitly calls him Papa but dates the occasion to the mid-6th century.
- ↑ The C text takes this opportunity to claim that St. David's was elevated to an archbishopric; this may have been true within the Celtic church as it resisted Augustine's authority and Rome's revised Easter tables, but it certainly wasn't recognized and didn't last.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Possibly a supernova or great comet. Halley's Comet appeared in 684, but returns in other centuries without attracting notice.
- ↑ This entry does not reference the actual first Easter, which had been celebrated since the arrival of Augustine, but instead the resolution of the Easter controversy by Northumbria's acceptance of the then-current Roman computus.
- ↑ L. anus. bellum anglorum in campo liphi contra britones. which on its face would mean a battle between the Welsh and English on the Liffey in Ireland. Presumably the Llynfi or some otherwise unknown location on Great Britain is intended instead. In the unlikely event the entry does describe an (otherwise unrecorded) battle in Ireland, it would have been near the Leinster capital Naas around the reigns of Faelan mac Colmain and Fiannamail mac Mael Tuile.
- ↑ Possibly a return of Justinian's Plague, which struck Europe every few generations until the mid-8th century; although the Chronicle of the Princes (Brut) calls it y fall felen (i.e., the same "Yellow Plague" that struck earlier during the reign of Maelgwn Gwynedd). The chronicle goes on to say the illness—and the famine that followed—lasted ten years.
- ↑ The Brut records this happening in 698, 24 years after Cadwaladr's flight (674), not 7 as here.
- ↑ Possibly owing to volcanic dust from an eruption around this time.