A.D. 939.] BATTL E OF BRUNEM BURG-. Death of Robert, first duke of Normandy. A.D. 935. Robert, first duke of Normandy, departed this life in a good old age, having appointed his son William, a most handsome youth, his successor. How Louis, the nephew of the king of England, received the diadem of France. A.D. 936. Count Hugo sent envoys into England to fetch over Louis, king Charles's son, to receive the kingdom of France. Having taken an oath from the French envoys, his uncle, king Ethelstan, sent him over to France with certain bishops. Count Hugo and other nobles who had gone to meet him, submitted themselves to Louis on the sea-shore, and conducting him to Laon, he was there crowned by archbishop Arthald in the presence of twenty bishops and nobles of the kingdom. How king Ethchtan defeated a multitude of enemies. A.D. 937. The pagan Anlaf, king of the Irish, and of numerous islands, on the invitation of Constantine, king of the Scots, entered the mouth of the river Humber with a mighty fleet, and was met by Ethelstan, king of England, and his brother Edmund, with their army, at a place called Bruneberih, where, in a battle which lasted from daybreak unto evening, they slew five inferior kings and seven dukes of the enemy, and shed such a quantity of blood in that spot as had never been heard of until that day in any battle in England ; and having compelled the kings Anlaf and Constantine to take refuge in their ships, they returned home in glorious triumph. How the emperor Otho married king Ethelstan's sister. A.D. 938. Otho attained the Roman empire and reigned thirty-six years. Immediately on his advancement to the throne, he took to wife king Ethelstan's sister Elgiva. King Ethelstan founded two monasteries. A.D. 939. Stephen sat in the Roman chair three years, four months, and fifteen days. At this time Ethelstan, king of England, for the good of the soul of his brother Eadwin,