Source: Textual EditionĘthelwulf.CarmAbb

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Author Ęthelwulf
Source Title De Abbatibus
Date of composition [803-21]
Language Latin

Notes

*On the relations between Ęthelwulf and the School of York see M. Lapidge, 'Aediluulf and the School of York', in his Anglo-Latin Literature, 600-899, Cambridge 1996, pp. 381-98.

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Go to Ęthelwulf. De Abbatibus Campbell, A. Ęthelwulf. De Abbatibus Oxford 1967 3-65

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Campbell, A. Ęthelwulf. De Abbatibus Oxford 1967 2-64

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  14 Sigebald 4 built a church consecrated to the Virgin.
2 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  19 Both day and night in his prayers Wynnfrith 2 commended both himself and the soul of Wulfsige 3 to the Lord.
3 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  15 A brother (Anonymous 416) saw Sigewine 1, dressed in clothes not his own, give gifts to the poor who were shut out of the gates. He urged them that they would tell these things to no man for as long as he was alive.
4 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  22 In Ęthelwulf 5's dream he was venerating the tomb of St Cuthbert 1.
5 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  16 Anonymous 417 saw in a vision the Lord take Hyglac 1 in his arms.
6 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  12 Eanmund 1's limbs were placed in a fitting tomb under the roof of the church
7 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  21 After leaving the church of St Peter at night, Ęthelwulf 5 approached a brother (Anonymous 418) who was observing the stars in the sky. Suddenly there appeared a great troop, which poured forth songs.
8 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  11 When life was taken away from Merhteof 1's body, his soul met his children who had previously died. They took him to the Lord who bade him visit his wife, whom he had cast away by marrying again. She was convinced by the children to let him return to his body so that he could discharge his sins.
9 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  10 Ęthwine 1 saw a troop come from heaven and take Cwicwine 1's soul from his body. It was resplendent and flying with the troop it entered the citadels above.
10 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  18 Ęthelwulf 5 attached himself to Wulfsige 3 as soon as he entered the monastery as a boy. They both enjoyed the peace of one house.
11 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  22 Ęthelwulf 5 had a dream of a great and elaborate church. He saw an old man there, who pointed out to him Eadfrith 5, one of Ęthelwulf 5's teachers. He also saw Hyglac 1 there and was led by Eadfrith 5 to meet Wulfsige 3. When the poet woke up, he started to write a description of the dream.
12 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  8 Ultįn 1 went to Eanmund 1's cells and mingled with the monks.
13 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  6 Eanmund 1 completed the lofty walls of a very beautiful temple. He placed in the church the altar which had been consecrated in the name of St Peter by Ecgberht 6.
14 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  8 A brother (Anonymous 414) who was very ill asked his servant to bring him a relic of Ultįn 1's body, namely his hand as he wanted to make a sign with it, hoping to be healed by the merits of the saint.
15 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  6 Eanmund 1 sent a messenger to Ecgberht 6, asking him to instruct the monks by the letter, and to sanctify for him an altar and reveal which places were worthy ones, in which a church might be placed. The bishop consecrated the altar in the name of St Peter and described a place that he had seen in a vision as a worthy place for the construction of a church.
16 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  6 A messenger (Anonymous 413) was sent by Ecgberht 6 to Eanmund 1. The bishop was aware of the construction of the church and was happy that it should stand on a former haunt of robbers.
17 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  17 Sigewine 1 was buried by the figure of the tall cross he had set up.
18 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  8 it was decided to raise Ultįn 1's remains from the grave, and after washing his bones to place them inside a tomb, which stood in the church.
19 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  5 Eanmund 1 went to see Eadfrith 3 and obtained from him a teacher (Anonymous 411) of the monastic rule.
20 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  4 Eanmund 1 obtained what he had assigned to Christ and St Peter, and collected the monks (Anonymi 1209) into a blessed cell.
21 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  Pref., 1 Ęthelwulf 5 wrote the poem 'De Abbatibus' for Bishop Ecgberht 6, from whose blood the great men celebrated in the poem 'De Abbatibus' had sprung.
22 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  2 Ecgfrith 4 fell by the hostile sword of the Picts.
23 Event Ęthelwulf.CarmAbb  4 Eanmund 1 received the tonsure when Osred 1 was persecuting the leaders of the English.