Authorship: LetterAlcuin 1
Author of a letter to Ĉthelheard 13, archbishop [of Canterbury]
Notes:
*{Epistolae Karolini aevi, ed. Ernst Dümmler, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Vol. 4, Berlin, Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1895, pp. 45-9} = {Allott, Stephen, Alcuin of York c.A.D.732 to 804, York, Sessions, 1974, no. 48}.
*{Clavis des auteurs latins du Moyen Age : territoire français 735-987 = Clavis scriptorum latinorum medii aevi : auctores galliae 735-987, Tom.2: Alcuin = Alcuinus / ed. Marie-Hélène Jullien et Françoise Perelman, Corpus christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, Turnholt : Brepols, 1999, ALC 45.17}.
*The poem concludes with a 24-line poem in honour of Ĉthelheard 13.
*Composed after 8 June 793, the day that Lindisfarne was sacked.
Persons associated with this Factoid:
- Primary: Alcuin 1
(Author, deacon and abbot of Tours, c.735-804)
- Secondary: Ĉthelheard 13
(Archbishop of Canterbury, 792-805 (cons. 793))