Thursday, 23 October 2014

Alcuin's Letter to Ethelred

In class this week I mentioned the letter sent by Alcuin, Archbishop of York, to Ethelred of Northumbria in 793, regarding the Norse raid on Lindisfarne.  If you are interested you can download the full text from here.

4 comments:

  1. Hello! Where is this letter physically?

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  2. Hello! Where is this letter physically?

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  3. Hello! Where is this letter physically?

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  4. Where can I find the original Latin for the paragraph starting 'Lo it is nearly 350 years .... ' etc.

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