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God for the souls of both kings, the murdered and the mur- 
d^erer — she would assuredly be the person who set up his 
memorial cross. I am satisfied that this name is there, 
and therefore think it probable that GISIB^ rather than 
GINIFi© followed ^FTER, and that the restoration of 
the whole should be — 
+ CEONBL^D THIS SETT^ ^onbM this set 
^FTER GISIB^ After (her) cousin 
YMB AUSWINI CYNING After Oswini (the) king 
GICEG^TH TH.ER SAWLE Pray for the soul. 
The fact of the name of Oswini being found here, even 
without hers, is enough to justify us in identifying CoUing- 
ham as the site of the monastery which she built to atone for 
his murder, and so throws light on a point of Yen. Baeda's 
geography which previously was involved ia obscurity. 
Oswini, we are told, unable to contend successfully with 
Oswiu, dismissed his forces, and commanded his men to return 
home, " from the place which is called Wil/arcesdun, i.e., 
Wilfara's Hill, and is about ten miles distant from the village 
Catar acton, against the north-west {contra solstitiatem occasiim), 
and he withdrew with one only soldier, most faithful to him- 
self, named Tondheri, to be hidden in the house of Earl 
Hunwald, whom also he esteemed to be most friendly to 
himself But, alas ! it was far otherwise, for Oswiu, by the 
hands of his praefect, ^thilTvdni, slew him, with his soldier 
aforesaid, betrayed by the same earl, by a death to be detested 
by all men. And this was done xiii. Kal. September, in the 
ninth year of his reign, in the place which is called In Gcet- 
lingmyi, where afterwards a monastery was built to atone for 
this crime." 
The name In GcetUngum (the preposition in with the dative 
plural of a tribe-name), means "in" or "among the Gaet- 
lingas." Such local designations were not unusual ; other 
