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Record Number:
45905
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Contributor(s):
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
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
9
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Abstract:
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]
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2020.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)