Florence uses the strange expression that Eadgar was chosen "by the Anglo-Britons:" and the meeting with the Welsh and Scotch princes in the semi-Welsh town of Chester conveys a like implication.
One act of Dunstan's policy, however, had far-reaching results, of a kind which he himself could never have anticipated.

He handed over all Northumbria beyond the Tweed--the region now known as the Lothians--as a fief to Kenneth, king of Scots.

This accession of territory wholly changed the character of the Scottish kingdom, and largely promoted the Teutonisation of the Celtic North.

The Scottish princes now took up their residence in the English town of Edinburgh, and learned to speak the English language as their mother-tongue.

Already Eadmund had made over Strathclyde or Cumberland to Malcolm; and thus the dominions of the Scottish kings extended over the whole of the country now known as Scotland, save only the Scandinavian jarldoms of Caithness, Sutherland, and the Isles.