Ælfric of Eynsham paraphrased Bede into Old English, saying " Now the Earth's roundness and the Sun's orbit constitute the obstacle to the day's being equally long in every land.

In the will Ælfric split his land holdings in Loddon, Bergh Apton and Barton between the Bishops of Bury, Ely and St Benet of Holme.

In a letter, Ælfric wrote: “ þeo is eac on English on ure wisan iset eow mannum to bisne, þet ge eower eard mid wæpnum beweriæn wið onwinnende here .” Translated into modern English, the phrase reads: “ It is also set as an example for you in English according to our style, so that you will defend your land with weapons against an attacking force ” ( Nelson, pg.

The earliest written mention of Loddon ( Lodne ) is in the will of Ælfric Modercope written in 1042 or 1043.

The group tasked with the mission was reportedly led by Ælfric Puttoc, Archbishop of York and Godwin, Earl of Wessex.

Odda's brother Ælfric was buried at Pershore in 1053, joined three years later by Odda himself.

He was succeeded by Osric, son of Edwin's paternal uncle Ælfric, in Deira, and by Eanfrith, son of Æthelfrith and Edwin's sister Acha, in Bernicia.

Æthelweard was the friend and patron of Ælfric of Eynsham, who in the preface to his Old English Lives of saints, addressed Æthelweard and his son Æthelmær.

There are some indications that he was a student of Ælfric of Eynsham, the homilist.

Of all the English hagiographers no one was more prolific nor so aware of the importance of the genre as Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham.

Ælfric of Eynsham was a prolific 10th century writer of hagiographies and homilies.

* Athulf ( before 940 – after 1013 ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Hereford who was consecrated about 970 and served until his death, approximately 45 years later ; preceded by Ælfric and succeeded by Æthelstan

Ælfric of Eynsham (; ) ( c. 955 – c. 1010 ) was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres.

Ælfric was responsible for the preface to Genesis as well as some of its translations.

Ælfric was educated in the Benedictine Old Minster at Winchester under Saint Æthelwold, who was bishop there from 963 to 984.

Ælfric no doubt gained some reputation as a scholar at Winchester, for when, in 987, the abbey of Cerne ( Cerne Abbas in Dorset ) was finished, he was sent by Bishop Ælfheah ( Alphege ), Æthelwold's successor, at the request of the chief benefactor of the abbey, the ealdorman Æthelmær the Stout, to teach the Benedictine monks there.

This date ( 987 ) is one of only two certain dates we have for Ælfric, who was then in priest's orders.

It was at Cerne, and partly at the desire, it appears, of Æthelweard, that he planned the two series of his English homilies ( edited by Benjamin Thorpe, 1844 – 1846, for the Ælfric Society and more recently by Malcolm Godden and Peter Clemoes for the Early English Text Society ), compiled from the Christian fathers, and dedicated to Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury ( 990-994 ).

It is safe to assume that the original draft of this, afterwards maybe enlarged by his pupil and copyist, Ælfric Bata, was by Ælfric, and represents what his own scholar days were like.

Ælfric was a conscientious monk who left careful instructions to future scribes to copy his works carefully because he did not want his works ' scholarly, salvation-bringing words marred by the introduction of unorthodox passages and scribal errors.

Ælfric was the most prolific writer in Old English.

( 1 ) As above, Ælfric was identified with Ælfric of Abingdon ( 995-1005 ), Archbishop of Canterbury.

The identity of Ælfric the grammarian with Ælfric archbishop of York was also discussed by Henry Wharton, in Anglia Sacra.

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Liebermann's more subtle position seems to be vindicated by testimony from abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, the leading homilist of the late 10th century, who wrote: No man can make himself king, but the people has the choice to choose as king whom they please ; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has dominion over the people, and they cannot shake his yoke off their necks.

* The Life of St. Aethelthryth by Ælfric

At the same time she is the subject of a homily by the Anglo-Saxon abbot Ælfric.

Through the centuries, however, Ælfric ’ s sermons were threatened by the terrorism of Viking axes and the dangerous banality of human neglect when — some seven hundred years after their composition — they nearly perished in London's Cotton Fire that scorched or destroyed close to 1, 000 invaluable ancient works.

Ælfric by no means expressed the popular opinion of the time.

* White, Caroline L. Ælfric: A New Study of His Life and Writings: With a Supplementary Classified Bibliography Prepared by Malcolm R. Godden, Yale Studies in English II.

Upon the death of his father Wihtred, the kingdom was ruled by his three sons, Æthelbert II, Eadberht I and Ælfric.

The banishment of Ealdred's patron came shortly after the death of Ælfric Puttoc, the Archbishop of York.

In 1006 Ælfheah succeeded Ælfric as Archbishop of Canterbury, taking Swithun's head with him as a relic for the new location.

Ælfheah sent Ælfric of Eynsham to Cerne Abbey to take charge of its monastic school.

Ælfric ( m .; German Alberich ) " elf-ruler ", Ælfweard ( m .) Ælfwaru ( f .) " elf-guardian ", Ælfsige " elf-victory ", Ælfflæd ( f .) " elf-beauty ", Ælfwynn ( f .) " elf-bliss ", among others.

* Ælfric of Abingdon leaves ships to the people of Wiltshire and Kent in his will, with his best one, equipped for sixty men, going to King Æthelred II.

The Parish Council adopted Ælfric for Loddon's town sign in 1961 and the bronze statue still stands on Farthing Green.

* Ælfric, preface to Lives of Saints, ed.

W. W. Skeat, Ælfric ’ s Lives of Saints.

* Ælfric, preface to his Old English homilies, ed.

The First Part, Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric.

Next came, for the Ælfric Society, The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church ,’ with an English version, published in ten parts between 1843 and 1846.