I was born in the fourth year of the reign of Cnut , the Norweign king of the English. For three years I lived with my family near the Culcleth, a small stream in northeast Gwyndedd. Then the Irish came a'roving. They killed those at our steading and took me as a slave.
For four years I lived as an Irishman - first as a slave and then, after my master's son, Padriagh (who I had played with and who was only a couple of years older than I) was killed my marauding Picts, as Ceatta mac Cormac. There was some peacefulness in this, though we always had to wary of the Picts and Norse.
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