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

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.

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* Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot

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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.

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.

Like its Old English precursor from Ælfric, an Abbot of Eynsham, it includes very little Biblical text, and focuses more on personal commentary.

* At about the same time as the Wessex Gospels, the priest Ælfric of Eynsham produced an independent translation of the Pentateuch with Joshua and Judges.

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.

1005 is the other certain date we have for Ælfric, when he left Cerne for nobleman Æthelmær ’ s new monastery in Eynsham, a long eighty-five-mile journey inland in the direction of Oxford.

Though Ælfric had formerly been identified with the archbishop, thanks to the work of Lingard and Dietrich, most modern scholars now identify Ælfric as holding no higher office than abbot of Eynsham.

fr: Ælfric d ' Eynsham

nl: Ælfric van Eynsham

no: Ælfric av Eynsham

pt: Ælfric de Eynsham

Most notably, Ælfric of Eynsham, late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer, composed a homily ( in prose ) of the tale.

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Ælfric of Eynsham, writing in the 10th century, recorded how " the heathens made him into a celebrated god and made offerings to him at crossroads and brought oblations to high hills for him.

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With Ælfric of Eynsham, he is one of the two major vernacular writers in early eleventh-century England, a period which, ecclesiastically anyway, was still very much enamoured of and greatly influenced by the Benedictine Reform.

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

Ælfric held of land in Loddon and was by far the biggest landowner.

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.

* 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 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.

In the 11th century, Abbot Ælfric translated much of the Old Testament into Old English.

Until the end of the nineteenth century, the true identification of Ælfric had been problematic, primarily because Ælfric had often been confused with Ælfric of Abingdon, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury.

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

While Sigeric was an abbot, Ælfric dedicated a book of translated homilies to him.