171 Attenborough 1922, 59.
172 EH III.4; EH II.9.
173 For example, Higham 1995, 240ff.
174 EH IV.23.
175 O’Brien and Miket 1991.
Chapter XII
176 EH III.12; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 251.
177 See Sawyer 1977.
178 Cambridge 1995, 147; Binns 1995, 268 Figure 8.
179 EH III.9.
180 EH III.14.
181 Beowulf lines 3137–46. Penguin edition, trans. Michael Alexander.
182 Beowulf lines 3168–82.
Chapter XIII
183 EH III.12
184 EH III.9. Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 243.
185 EH III.9; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 243.
186 Campbell 1986.
187 EH III.10; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 245.
188 Rollason 1989, 10.
189 WLG XXI; Colgrave 1968, 111.
190 EH III.10; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 245.
191 EH III.10; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 245.
192 Cubitt 2002.
193 Chaney 1970, 13.
194 EH IV.14; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 381.
Chapter XIV
195 Smith 1962.
196 Brooks 1989a, 66.
197 EH III.15; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 261.
198 EH III.24; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 259.
199 PLC III; Wood 2008, 19.
200 Anonymous Life of Cuthbert VII; Colgrave 1940, 73.
201 EH III.16; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 263.
202 EH III.24.
Chapter XV
203 EH III 21.
204 EH III.21.
205 Walker 1976.
206 EH III.22.
207 HB 64 and 65. Id est Artbret Iudeu.
208 EH I.12.
209 EH III.24; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 291.
210 EH III.24.
211 EH III.24.
212 Wood 2008, 20.
Chapter XVI
213 EH III.25; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 295.
214 VW XXII; Colgrave 1927, 47.
215 EH III.26; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 311.
216 PLC VII.
217 PLC VIII; Colgrave 1940, 181.
218 EH III.26.
219 EH III.25; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 297.
220 Cummian, De Controversia Paschali; Cotton Vitell. A. xii; Healy 1912.
221 Abels 1983.
Chapter XVII
222 EH III.27; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 311.
223 Cowan Duff, personal communication.
224 Cramp 1976; Rahtz 1976.
225 Abels 1983, 12ff.
226 PLC VIII.
227 EH III.25; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 299.
228 EH III.25; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 301.
229 VW X.
230 EH III.25; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 308–9.
231 Richardson 1961, 107.
Chapter XVIII
232 EH IV. 4; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 347.
233 EH IV.4; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 349.
234 EH III. 26; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 309.
235 EH IV.19.
236 VW XIX; Colgrave 1927, 43.
237 VW XXIV; Colgrave 1927, 49.
238 EH III.11; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 247.
239 EH III.11; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 247.
240 EH IV.26.
241 VW XXIV.
242 WLG XVIII; Colgrave 1968, 103.
243 VW XIX; Colgrave 1927, 105.
244 VW XXIV.
245 VW XXXIV.
246 VW XXXVII.
247 Jones 1990.
248 EH IV.22.
249 VW XXXIX; Colgrave 1927, 79.
Chapter XIX
250 Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunelmensis, Ecclesie. Stevenson 1993.
251 Historia Translationum Sancti Cuthberti auctore anonymo (HTSC). Battiscombe 1956, 99.
252 HTSC. Battiscombe 1956, 103.
253 ALC XIV; Colgrave 1940, 131.
254 ALC XIV; Colgrave 1940, 133.
255 PLC XLII; Colgrave 1940, 295.
256 I Corinthians 15: 51–53.
257 EH III.19.
258 EH IV.19.
259 EH III.8.
260 Boddington et al. 1987; Reeve and Adams 1993; Hunter et al. 1996.
261 Tapp, E. and O’Sullivan, D., ‘St Bees Man: the Autopsy’, Proceedings of the Palaeopathology Association, 4th European Meeting, Middleburg 178–82, 1982
262 Janaway 1996, 77.
263 Holder 2011, 57; 95.
264 EH III.25.
265 Carver 2006, 101.
266 Garmonsway 1972, 55–6.
267 Alcuin: Letter to King Æthelred ad 793. Whitelock 1955, 775–7.
268 Alcuin: Letter to Higbald, bishop of Lindisfarne ad 793. Whitelock 1955, 844.
269 For a detailed consideration of this see Bailey 1995.
270 Historia de Sancto Cuthberto (HSC) XX.
271 HTSC, Battiscombe 1956, 100.
272 HTSC, Battiscombe 1956, 101.
273 HTSC, Battiscombe 1956, 108.
274 Bailey 1995, 200.
275 Alcuin: Sanctis Euboricensis Ecclesiæ. Godman 1982, 35.
276 ASC sub anno 909.
277 Bonser 1935.
278 Bailey 1995, 202.
279 Thacker 1995, 103.
280 Cambridge 1995, 155ff.
281 Michelle Ziegler runs an impressive blog called Heavenfield at hefenfelth.wordpress.com/. She is also the founder of the online journal The Heroic Age, dedicated to Early Medieval matters.
282 Cambridge 1995, 128.
283 For a review see the relevant chapters in Stancliffe and Cambridge (eds) 1995.
Chapter XX
284 PLC XXIV; Colgrave and Mynors 1940, 235.
285 PLC XXIV; Colgrave and Mynors 1940, 237.
286 According to Symeon of Durham; Yorke 2009.
287 For example Marsden 1992, 208–12.
288 EH IV 26.
289 Wood 2010, 91.
290 Bede, Letter to Egbert. McClure and Collins 1994, 344–5.
291 Bede, Letter to Egbert. McClure and Collins 1994, 345.
292 Bede, Letter to Egbert. McClure and Collins 1994, 347.
293 EH V.23; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, 561.
294 Bede, Letter to Egbert. McClure and Collins 1994, 350.
295 Bede, Letter to Egbert. McClure and Collins 1994, 350–1.
296 Bede, Letter to Egbert. McClure and Collins 1994, 351.
297 EH IV 25.
298 HSC VI, VII.
299 HSC VIII.
Appendix A
300 Jackson 1964, 22.
301 Breeze 2009.
302 HB 63.
303 HB 63.
304 HB 63.
305 Hunter Blair 1950.
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