45

15. Eadwine's Conversion and Fall 46

16. Oswald's Victory at Heavenfield 47

17. Oswald and Aidan 47

18. Oswald's Greatness and Overthrow 47

19. Penda's Overthrow 48

20. The Three Kingdoms and the Welsh 48

21. The English Missionaries 49

22. Dispute between Wilfrid and Colman. 664 49

23. Archbishop Theodore and the Penitential System 50

24. Ealdhelm and Caedmon 51

25. Bede. 673--735 52

26. Church Councils 52

27. Struggle between Mercia and Wessex 52

28. Mohammedanism and the Carolingian Empire 54

29. Ecgberht's Rule. 802--839 54

CHAPTER IV.

THE ENGLISH KINGSHIP AND THE STRUGGLE WITH THE DANES.

1. The West Saxon Supremacy 55

2. The Coming of the Northmen 56

3. The English Coast Plundered 57

4. The Danes in the North 57

5. AElfred's Struggle in Wessex. 871--878 58

6. The Treaty of Chippenham, and its Results. 878 59

7. AElfred's Military Work 60

8. His Laws and Scholarship 60

9. Eadward the Elder. 899--925 62

10. Eadward's Conquests 62

11. Eadward and the Scots 63

12. AEthelstan. 925--940 63

13. Eadmund (940--946) and Eadred (946--955) 63

14. Danes and English 64

15. Eadwig. 955--959 64

16. Dunstan 65

17. Archbishop Oda 65

18. Eadwig's Marriage 67

CHAPTER V.

EADGAR'S ENGLAND.

1. Eadgar and Dunstan. 959--975 67

2. The Cession of