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 from the sacred font of baptism; and his chrism-loosing on the eighth day was in the royal vill called Wedmore. After he was baptized he stayed with the king twelve nights, and to him and all the men with him the king generously gave many valuable gifts.

In the year of our Lord’s incarnation the eight hundred and seventy-ninth, and the thirty-first from King Alfred’s birth, the said army of pagans left Chippenham according to promise and went to Cirencester (in Welsh “Cairceri”), located in the southern part of the district of the Hwicce, and there spent a year.

In the same year a great army of pagans from foreign parts sailed up the Thames River and joined the larger army, but wintered at a place called Fulham by the Thames.

In the same year an eclipse of the sun occurred between nones and vespers, but nearer to nones.

In the year of our Lord’s incarnation the eight