The inconsistencies appear to result from the efforts of later chroniclers to demonstrate that each king on the list was descended from Cerdic, the founder, according to the Chronicle, of the West Saxon line in England.
As incoherencias veñen motivadas en boa medida polos esforzos de crónicas posteriores en demostrar que cada rei da lista descendía de Cerdic, o fundador, segundo a Crónica, da liña sucesoria de Wessex.