The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . • - S2 Z. BASE OK OWINS CROSS.— 5,, /,7^> 218. ///., facing /> 202. APPENDIX I 203 hold thee dearest We can hardly doubt that she alsowas an Abbess of Hackness, or she would hardly have been thuscommemorated there. I think it very probable that she is thesame abbess on whose behalf St. ^Elfleda wrote the letter abovequoted to St. Boniface. It would seem, in fact, that she was alsoa daughter of Aldwulf, or Eadulf, King of the East Angles, and asister of yEthilburga just named. Like E
The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . • - S2 Z. BASE OK OWINS CROSS.— 5,, /,7^> 218. ///., facing /> 202. APPENDIX I 203 hold thee dearest We can hardly doubt that she alsowas an Abbess of Hackness, or she would hardly have been thuscommemorated there. I think it very probable that she is thesame abbess on whose behalf St. ^Elfleda wrote the letter abovequoted to St. Boniface. It would seem, in fact, that she was alsoa daughter of Aldwulf, or Eadulf, King of the East Angles, and asister of yEthilburga just named. Like Eadburga, the Abbess ofRepton, of whom we have written earlier,2 she occurs with hername spelt in a different way. In a letter written to ArchbishopBoniface by her with her name spelt Egburga, she describes herselfas lowlier than any of his male and female disciples, and addresseshim by his original name, Wynfrith. In it he is called an abbot.(It must therefore have been written before he became bishop,and when he was still Abbot of Nutshell, in 717-718.) Shesays, The tempest-tossed mariner doe
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