980

In this year was Ethelgar consecrated bishop, on the sixth day before the nones of May, to the bishopric of Selsey; and in the same year was Southampton plundered by a pirate-army, and most of the population imprisoned. And the same year was the Isle of Thanet overrun, and the county of Chester was plundered by the pirate-army of the North. In this year Alderman Alfere fetched the body of the holy King Edward at Wareham, and carried him with great solemnity to Shaftsbury.

(Ingram, p.99)

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In November Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) triumphed in a day-long debate at Ravenna where his quickness of wit earned victory for the proposition that physics is a branch of mathematics, not a separate discipline in its own right.

(Lacey, p.189)