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Hace 23 horas · En el 741 funda una abadía en Fulda, donde habrían de descansar después sus restos mortales. Bonifacio no dejó nunca de luchar a brazo partido para sacar del paganismo a sajones, que no se conformaban con venerar a la Naturaleza, sino que practicaban criminales rituales.
22 de may. de 2024 · Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Somerset. Learn more about Wessex, including its kings.
Hace 2 días · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
16 de may. de 2024 · Cynewulf, an Anglo-Saxon poet writing sometime during the 8th-9th cs., created a unique fusion of Christian religious themes and the oral-formulaic style of OLD ENGLISH poetry in his Fates of the Apostles, Ascension, Juliana, and Elene.
Hace 5 días · Between 757 and 786 Cynewulf, king of Wessex, gave lands, later MILDENHALL manor, to Bica his thegn who granted them to Glastonbury abbey. A grant made to the abbey by King Edred between 946 and 955 probably confirmed the earlier gift.
18 de may. de 2024 · "Cynewulf" published on by Oxford University Press. "Cynewulf" published on by Oxford University Press. Probably a Northumbrian or Mercian poet of the 9th or early 10th century. Modern scholarship restricts attribution to him of four extant poems, all of which end with his signature in runes.
Hace 3 días · Another of the places annexed by Cutha was Benson, also a major crossing point of the upper Thames, and the river's importance as a boundary is implied in 779 when Offa of Mercia, after defeating Cynewulf of Wessex at Benson, allegedly built a fortress on Wytham Hill, protecting the Swinford crossing.
