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of Rixinc (Richsi-ing, descendant of Richsi or Ricsig),
rode west over the hills (to Cumberland), and there
killed the prince Eardulf and carried off his wife. He
took sanctuary with Cutheard, who gave him the eastern
part of county Durham, bounded by Deor street (the
Roman road), and also the land of Gainford-on-Tees,
which he held three years, until Ragnvald slew him
at the battle of Corbridge, and gave the land to Esbrid,
son of Edred, and his brother Eltan the jarl, for their
services in the battle. In these stories we have hints
of affairs and persons in Cumberland, not without
value considering the darkness of the period; and
we are assured of the persistence of St. Cuthbert’s
patrimony in county Durham as a sanctuary, in spite
of all the attacks of the Vikings. This is enforced by
the legend of Olaf Ball (ballr, the stubborn) to whom
Ragnvald had given the land from Castle Eden to the
Wear, a pagan who refused rent and service to St.
Cuthbert. Coming in one day to the church at
Chester-le-Street, he shouted to bishop Cutheard and
his congregation, " What can your dead man, Cuthbert,
do to me? What is the use of threatening me
with his anger? I swear, by my strong gods Thor
and Othan, that I will be the enemy of you all from
this time forth." And when he tried to leave the
church he could not lift his foot over the threshold,
but fell down dead, "and St. Cuthbert, as was just, got
his lands."
Now the Ulster Annals, under 918, describe a
battle in which King Ragnvald with Gotfrith O’Ivar
and the jarls Ottar and "Gragabai" met the men of
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