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Æðelflǽd

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Æðelflǽd, e; f. [æðele, flǽd]
Æthelfled; Æthelfleda, The eldest and most intellectual daughter of king Alfred the Great, and sister of king Edward, the Elder. She married Æthelred, a Mercian nobleman, who was made viceroy of Mercia by king Alfred. He died in A. D. 912,
  • Chr. Erl. 100, 30
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and his widow Æthelfled governed Mercia most efficiently for about ten years
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  • Hér com Æðelflǽd, Myrcna hlǽfdige, on ðone hálgan ǽfen Inuentione Sanctæ Crucis, to Scergeate, and ðǽr ðá burh getimbrede; and, ðæs ilcan geáres, ða æt Bricge

    here, A. D. 912, Æthelfled, the lady of the Mercians, came to Scergeat [Sarrat ?] on the holy eve of the Inventio Sanctæ Crucis [May third], and there built the burgh; and in the same year, that at Bridgenorth,

    • Chr. 912; Th. 187; 6-10, col. 1
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    • Chr. 913; Th. 186, 11-37, col. 2
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    • Chr. 917; Th. 190, 37m col. 2: 192, 1, col. 2
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    • Chr. 918; Th. 192, 7, col. 2
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    • Th. Diplm. A. D. 886-899, 138, 5-11: 138, 29-32
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Æthelfled died at Tamworth in A. D. 922.
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  • Ðá on ðæm setle Eádweard cyng ðǽr sæt [æt Steanforde], ðá gefór Æðelflǽd his swystar æt Tameworþige, xii nihtum ǽr middum sumera. Ðá gerád he ða burg æt Tameworþige; and him cierde to eall se þeódscype on Myrcna lande, ðe Æðelflǽde ǽr underþeóded wæs

    then, while king Edward was tarrying there [at Stamford], Æthelfled his sister died at Tamworth, twelve nights before midsummer. Then rode he to the borough of Tamworth; and all the population in Mercia turned to him, which before was subject to Æthelfled,

    • Chr. 922 ; Erl. 108, 22-26
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v.  Æðelrǽd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Æðelflǽd.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/941.

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