Childric

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: Childric was in those days a kaiser of powerful authority. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Childric was in those days a kaiser of powerful authority;"

• attestation: Childric gan proceed over the North end, and took in his hand a great deal of land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Childric gan proceed over the North end, and took in his hand a great deal of land."

• attestation: Forth-right they marched toward the North end, toward Lincoln night and day, that Childric the kaiser besieged. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Forth-right they marched toward the North end, toward Lincoln night and day, that Childric the kaiser besieged."

• attestation: Smite on Childric, the strong and the powerful; and we shall tell them British tales! (Layamon's Brut)

  "and smite on Childric, the strong and the powerful;"

• attestation: For there were within seven thousand men, brave men and active, by day and night. (Layamon's Brut)

  "for there were within seven thousand men, brave men and active, by day and night."

• attestation: Sally out of the burgh, and fell your foes; and smite on Childric, the strong and the powerful. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and sally out of the burgh, and fell your foes;"

• attestation: Childric the kaiser had a castle here, in Lincoln's field, where he lay within, that was newly wrought, and exceeding well guarded. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Childric the kaiser had a castle here, in Lincoln's field, where he lay within, that was newly wrought, and exceeding well guarded;"

• attestation: Four-and-twenty hostages Childric there delivered, all they were chosen, and noble men born. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Four-and-twenty hostages Childric there delivered, all they were chosen, and noble men born;"

• attestation: Now is Childric flown, and awayward gone. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Now is Childric flown, and awayward gone;"

• attribution: That all his mickle folk fell to the ground, now saw he there beside a hill exceeding great, the water floweth there under, that is named Teine, the hill is named Teinewic, thitherward fled Childric, as quickly as he might, with four-and-twenty knights. Then Cador saw, how it then fared there, that the kaiser fled, and toward the hill retreated, and Cador pursued after him, as speedily as he might, and came up to him, and overtook him soon. (Layamon's Brut)

  "that all his mickle folk fell to the ground, now saw he there beside a hill exceeding great, the water floweth there under, that is named Teine, the hill is named Teinewic, thitherward fled Childric, as quickly as he might, with four-and-twenty knights."

• attestation: Even with the speech, that the powerful earl spake, and promptly he gan ride, that was stern in mood, the warriors most keen advanced out of the wood-shaw, and after Childric pursued, the strong and the rich Childric's knights looked behind them;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Even with the speech, that the powerful earl spake, and promptly he gan ride, that was stern in mood, the warriors most keen advanced out of the wood-shaw, and after Childric pursued, the strong and the rich Childric's knights looked behind them;"

• attestation: Childric and his knights came to ship forthright. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Childric and his knights came to ship forthright;"

• attestation: Saw Childric, that it befell to them evilly; that all his mickle folk fell to the ground, now saw he there beside a hill exceeding great, the water floweth there under, that is named Teine, the hill is named Teinewic, thitherward fled Childric, as quickly as he might, with four-and-twenty knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then saw Childric, that it befell to them evilly;"

• attestation: The burgh walls were broken and fallen down, that Childric all consumed, and the halls all clean. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The burgh walls were broken and fallen down, that Childric all consumed, and the halls all clean."

• attestation: He would to Childrich give part of his realm, all beyond the Humber; because he should him help to fight against his uncle King Arthur. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and he would to Childrich give part of his realm, all beyond the Humber;"

• attestation: Modred took his messengers, and sent to Saxland, after Childrich, who was king most powerful, and bade him come to Britain--thereof he should have possession. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Modred took his messengers, and sent to Saxland, after Childrich, who was king most powerful, and bade him come to Britain--thereof he should have possession."

• attestation: Modred bade Childrich, the strong and the rich, to send messengers wide, on the four sides of Saxland, and bid all the knights that they might get, that they should come soon to this kingdom. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Modred bade Childrich, the strong and the rich, to send messengers wide, on the four sides of Saxland, and bid all the knights that they might get, that they should come soon to this kingdom;"

• attestation: Childrich proceeded soon into Britain. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Childrich proceeded soon into Britain."