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Some scholars have gone so far as to suggest that Cerdic is purely a legendary figure, and had no actual existence, but this is a minority view.

However, the earliest source for Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was put together in the late ninth century ; though it probably does record the extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening four hundred years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate.