Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45905
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  • Title: An English Gospel Book Ransomed from the Vikings
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 210 - 211.
  • Description: Inscription in the manuscript commemorates the ransom paid by Alderman Alfred, his wife Werburg, and daughter Alhthryth.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Family Lay Piety Manuscripts Ransoms Vikings
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 9
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  • Related Resources: Trans. A.A. Somerville, from A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: Archaic and Dialectal, ed. Henry Sweet, rev. T. F. Hoad (Clarendon Press, 1978), p. 115.
  • Author's Affiliation: Affiliation: Brock University [McDonald and Somerville-Retired from the English Department]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)