Dressed in the attire of the day, are two women. The woman standing is Æthelthryth ((636 – 679 AD), an Anglo-Saxon saint known, in a religious context, as Etheldreda or Audrey. She was an East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely. England.


From Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities by Charles Knight 1845


Size: 3704px × 3344px
Location: Northumberland, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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