First Authored by: Beden before 263 BC
Written into the book by: Beden before 263 BC
Events described: Before 263 BC
Konereds Successor Beden
The Writing of Beden
My name is Beden, Hachgana’s son. Konred, my uncle, was never married and also died childless.¹
Me has one chosen in his stead.
Adel, the third king of this name, has approved the choice, provided that I would acknowledge him as my master.
Besides the full inheritance of my uncle, has he given me a plot of ground which was piled upon my inheritance, under the condition that I thereupon should place people who should never his people…
Here twenty leaves (perhaps 100 more) are missing from the manuscript wherein Beden has written about King Adel III.(Called by our chroniclers, Ubbo.)⁵