Eadwig
Britishnoun
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He believes the psalter's capital letters were based on designs created by a master scribe, Eadwig Basan, who is not known to have been working in Canterbury until a few years after Alphege's death.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2020
Eadwig died in 958, and Eadgar then became king of all three provinces; thus finally uniting the whole of Teutonic England into one kingdom.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
To which is added, an Inquiry into the Life and Character of King Eadwig, from the Author's MS. 8vo. 12s.
From Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849 by Various
It is enough for me to maintain two things: that they are popular traditions; and that without these popular traditions we should have bothered about Alfred about as much as we bother about Eadwig.
From The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Dunstan, character and work of, 65; banished by Eadwig, 67; becomes Eadgar's Minister, ib.; his attitude towards the monks, 68; supports Eadward's succession, 78; death of, 79.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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