Natanleod

Natanleod, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was a king of the Britons. His inclusion in the Chronicle is widely believed to be the product of folk etymology.

==History== Under the year 508, a date which is not to be relied upon, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Cerdic and Cynric "killed a certain British king named Natanleod, and 5 thousand men with him – after whom the land as far as Cerdic's ford was named Natanleaga". Cerdic's ford is identified with North Charford and South Charford in modern Hampshire and Natanleaga with a marshy area, Netley Marsh, close to the town of Totton in Hampshire. This claim is disputed by Andrew Breeze, who takes the account to be genuine. Bernard Mees, while agnostic to the entry's truth, notes that the story could be a garbled recollection of Brythonic infighting in sub-Roman Britain given Cerdic's own name is known to be of Celtic origin.