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

* Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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

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

Eadwine was the brother of Ealdorman Ælfric Cild, who purchased the abbacy for him in 985 ; he died in 990 ( Kelly 2000 ).

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.

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

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.

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 ).

* 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

* 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.