Event: JourneyEmma 2.journey to England

Asserted in: ASC (C-F) 1002 CDEF(OE and Lat.)
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Scholarly Info
Description	Emma 2 came in that same Lent to the country.
Year	1002

Primary Source Info
Date from Source	1002 CDEF(OE and Lat.): the same Lent as Leofsige 17 was driven from the country by Æthelred 32

Notes:

*The Old English 'lencten' can be translated as 'spring' and both @Whitelock 1979 and @Swanton 1996 have done so. The author of the Latin text of MS F translates the term as 'in quadragesimo' and so evidently interpreted the Old English word as 'Lent'.

Persons associated with this Event:

Agent: Emma 2 (of Normandy; wife of Kings Æthelred 32 and Cnut 3; mother of King Edward 15, d.1052)