• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  descended from the Goths & Jutes.
  
  "Oslac, the famous butler of King Ethelwulf [=AETHELWULF],
  which Oslac was a Goth by nation, descended from the Goths and
  Jutes, of the seed, namely, of Stuf and Whitgar [= WIHTGAR in
  trans. by K & L], two brothers and countes; who, having
  received possession of the Isle of Wight from their uncle, king
  Cerdic, and his son Cynric their cousin, slew the few British
  inhabitants whom they could find in that island, at a place
  called Gwihtgaraburgh [FOOTNOTE:
  Carisbrooke, as may be conjectured from the name, which is a
  combination of
  Weight and Caraburgh.]; for the other inhabitants of the island
  had either been slain or escaped into exile." [NOTE:  In the
  translation by Keynes and Lapidge, the place is called
  Wihtgarabyrig. A footnote states that this is the name given in
  the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, although (they say) the text of
  Asser has
  Guuihtgaraburhg which "has been identified in the past as
  Carisbrooke, but
  strong objections to this were raised by Stevenson, *Asser*,
  pp. 172-5; the
  place must remain unidentified."]
  
  SRCE:   Asser of Saint David, *Annals of the Reign of Alfred
  the Great, from
  A.D. 849 to A.D. 887* (or *Life of Alfred*), translated by J A
  Giles, 1848,
  p 43-44. Giles says in the preface, p vi:
  
  " Oslac, famed cup-bearer of King Ethelwulf.  Not this Oslac
  was by birth a Goth, sprung both from Goths and Jutes, and of
  the stock of Stuf and Wihtgar, brethren alike and earls.  From
  their uncle, King Cerdic, and his son, Cynric, their cousin,
  had they sway over the Isle of Wight. And there, at a place
  hight
  Gwihtgara-burhg [Carisbrooke], slew they the few British
  indwellers whom
  they found in that island; for the other fold thereof had been
  slain before,
  or had fled into exile."
  --- Asser, *de Aelfredi rebus gestis* (*Of the Deeds of
  Alfred*), as
  presented by Edward Conybeare in *Alfred in the Chroniclers*,
  London, 1900, p 8

Details of Oslac Wight the Thane's family