Event: Battle, HostilityAnonymi 2538.hostilities at Holme
Scholarly Info
Description |
Hostilities began at Holme against the eastern enemy. Afterwards the barbarians (Anonymi 2538) were the victors. |
Year |
900 |
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Primary Source Info
Original Text |
... bella parantur Holme in loco contra orientalem ... cladem ... |
Date from Source |
Five days after the feast of the Holy Mother [= ?8 December]; the customary passage of the years had been twice fulfilled [after] the number of years completed since the birth of Christ was fully the nine-hundredth. |
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Notes:
*@Campbell 1962, p. 62, records Holme as an 'unidentified place in Kent'.
*@Campbell 1962, p. 52 n. 2 comments of the feast date: 'The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 Dec., would seem to be intended, see Wainwright, EHR, lx, 390-1.'
*Ęthelweard 23 and the Mercian Register are in agreement here on the place-name.
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