Note 69 — THE TRAVELS OF SÆWULF.
Reading edition
This is a remarkable blunder, arising from a strange confusion of words and ideas. The Colossians were the inhabitants of Colossus, in Phrygia. The Persians of Sæwulf were the Saracens, who captured Rhodes in A.D. 651. It had been taken by the Persians in 616. [69]