The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . her full name. I would add to Haighs arguments another which strikes meas very forcible, namely, that Hild was the name of the goddessof war among the pagan Saxons, and an individual would hardlybe named after the goddess without some qualifying particle. Haigh accordingly argues that the name of Hildithryth, whichoccurs on one of the two bigger stones just mentioned, wasreally St. Hildas full name. He mentions that in the famousLiber VitcB now at Durham, one section of which he claims tohave been c
The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . her full name. I would add to Haighs arguments another which strikes meas very forcible, namely, that Hild was the name of the goddessof war among the pagan Saxons, and an individual would hardlybe named after the goddess without some qualifying particle. Haigh accordingly argues that the name of Hildithryth, whichoccurs on one of the two bigger stones just mentioned, wasreally St. Hildas full name. He mentions that in the famousLiber VitcB now at Durham, one section of which he claims tohave been compiled at Lindisfarne in the latter half of the ninthcentury and which contains a list of the most famous saints andsaintly people in the north who had been benefactors of themonastery, the name of Hild or Hilda does not occur alone, butonly in such forms as Hildithryth, Wulfhild, Tidhild, Hildiberht,Hildiwald, etc., and he says very conclusively that the name of thegreat abbess of Heruteu and Strenaeshalh would certainly nothave been omitted from its list of queens and abbesses. Now it is. 1^ •^^ ^
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