1535944

[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

Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I2144:

Line ignored as not understood Line 48150: 2 SOUR @S085410@
Skipped subordinate line Line 48151: 3 DATA
Skipped subordinate line Line 48152: 4 TEXT Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000