Event: Life - orally recountedAnonymous 700.recounting of the Passio of St Edmund
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Primary Source Info
Original Text |
...a quodam sene decripito...referebat... |
Date from Source |
When Æthelstan 18 was King of the English... |
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Notes:
*As Æthelstan 18 is described as King of the English (rex Anglorum), it is likely that this took place after his conquest of Northumbria in 927. Dunstan 1 is also known to have been at his court in the 930s.
Persons associated with this Event:
- Agent:
Anonymous 700
(A broken-down veteran who claimed to have been Edmund 6's armour-bearer when he died.
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- Recipient:
Æthelstan 18
(King of the Anglo-Saxons, 924x925-927 and of the English, 927-939) : The Passio was related to him
- Recipient:
Dunstan 1
(Archbishop of Canterbury, 959-988) : He learned in his youth the Passio of St Edmund from Anonymous 700.