Iona itself did not adopt the Roman system until 715, according to the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede.

The word is often rendered in Latin by the historian Bede as prefectus and some early Anglo-Saxon charters, while West-Saxon charters prefer to reserve the term prefectus for ealdormen.

The 8th-century historian Bede wrote both a verse and a prose life of St Cuthbert around 720.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

The historian Bede described Eata as a gentle and greatly revered man.

The English monk and historian Bede in the first chapter of De temporum ratione, (725), entitled "Tractatus de computo, vel loquela per gestum digitorum", which allowed counting up to 9,999 on two hands.

This interpretation was based on the written sources, particularly Gildas but also the later sources such as the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede, that cast the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons as a violent event.

The historian Bede and an earlier English contemporary Aldhelm report that sizeable contingents of English students trained as missionaries in Ireland, specifically at Rath Melsigi, Co.

His followers commissioned Stephen of Ripon to write a Vita Sancti Wilfrithi (or Life of Wilfrid) shortly after his death, and the medieval historian Bede also wrote extensively about him.

The 8th-century historian Bede also used the term 'Frisians' for Franks in the south of Frisia.