Comments on: St. Etheldreda http://illegiterati.com/2008/06/07/st-etheldreda/ We have opinions. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:35:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: audrey http://illegiterati.com/2008/06/07/st-etheldreda/#comment-278 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:41:55 +0000 http://illegiterati.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-278 my name is audrey and this is the first time since 11 years that i finally knew the origin of my name … thanks for this information (:

]]> By: I’m not the only one with strange interests… « The Naked Philologist http://illegiterati.com/2008/06/07/st-etheldreda/#comment-100 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:55:33 +0000 http://illegiterati.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-100 [...] Illegiterati’, who make a regular feature of Obscure Saint Blogging. Check out the account of St Ethelreda/AEthelthryth/Audrey,  which seems to be based on some later sources than AElfric, which are lot more particular about [...]

]]> By: highlyeccentric http://illegiterati.com/2008/06/07/st-etheldreda/#comment-99 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:43:05 +0000 http://illegiterati.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-99 AEthelthryth is my very favourite Anglo-Saxon saint… (and really not that hard to pronounce, I must add)

Out of curiosity, what’s your source for her early life? You seem to have a great deal more detail about Tondbyrt, the conditions of the wedding, and so on, than I have in the AElfric version I’m using at the moment. The grant of Eely as a wedding gift is a particularly interesting feature… I wonder where that one came from?

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