, St. Edmund, King and Martyr (Wikisource, The Free Library, 2008). View Source Online

Text name(s): Life of St. Edmund

Number of pages of primary source text: 0

Medieval Author(s): Aelfric

Dates: 975 - 1020

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Original Language(s): English - Anglo-Saxon / Old English;

Translation: English translation.

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Geopolitical Region(s): England;

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Aelfric of Eynsham was an English abbot and a prolific writer known for his hagiographies, homilies and biblical commentaries. The text translated here, the Life of St. Edmund, is an adaption of the account written by Abbo of Fleury and consistently presents the saint as a God-fearing king. This text is available through wikisources, a resource that should be used cautiously since it can be edited by causal readers. To see the original Anglo-Saxon accompanied by a facing-page translation see W. W. Skeat, ed. Aelfric’s Lives of Saints: Being a Set of Sermons on Saints’ Days Formerly Observed by the English Church (Early English Text Society Original Series 114, 1900).

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