Anglo-Saxon WillsDorothy Whitelock This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are of special interest for the light they cast on the families and connections of those who made the wills, and on the ways in which the testators managed the disposition of their lands and other possessions. The reissue of Professor Whitelock's book is complemented by reissues of Florence Harmer's Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), and of Agnes Jane Robertson's Anglo-Saxon Charters (1939, 2nd edition 1956). Between them, the three volumes represent the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon documents in the vernacular, to set beside the corpus of royal diplomas (in Latin), and the corpus of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and to serve at the same time as evidence of the uses of written English in the Anglo-Saxon period. |
Contents
General Preface by H D Hazeltine pages viixl | vii |
Preface xlixliii | xli |
List of Abbreviations xlv | xlv |
Addenda | xlvii |
The Will of Bishop Theodred | 2 |
The Will of Ælfgar | 6 |
The Will of Wynflæd ΙΟ | 10 |
The Will of Bishop Ælfsige | 16 |
The Will of the Ealdorman Æthelmær | 24 |
The Will of Brihtric and Ælfswith | 26 |
The Will of Ethelwold | 30 |
The Will of Æthelflæd | 34 |
The Will of Ælfflæd | 38 |
1 The Will of Æthelric | 42 |
2 King Ethelreds Confirmation of Æthelrics Will | 44 |
The Will of Wulfric | 46 |
Æthelgeards Bequest to the New Minster Winchester | 18 |
The Will of Ælfgifu | 20 |
The Will of the Ealdorman Ælfheah | 22 |
The Will of Wulfgyth | 84 |
The Bequest of Thurkil and Æthelgyth | 92 |
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Abbey Abbot acres æfter Ælfgar Ælfgifu Ælfheah Ælfhelm Ælfmær Ælfric Ælfsige Ælfstan Ælfwine Æthelflæd Æthelgyth Æthelmær Æthelric Æthelstan Æthelweard Anglo-Saxon Archbishop bequeathed bequest Berkshire bisceop Bishop Brihtnoth brother Burton Bury Bury St Edmunds buten Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury carucates charter Christchurch Chronicle church Cnut contract dæg dæge death document Domesday donor Ealdorman Edgar Edmund Edward Elfwine Essex Ethelred fæder gean geann gift godes grant the estate habbe hæbbe held heora heriot hides hire hlaforde Hoxne hyre Ibid Ketel King king's kirke land-book landes æt Liber Eliensis lond lord mancuses of gold mannum mentioned Minster minum mortis causa mynstre O.Icel ofer Old Minster oral pære pæs pæt possession probably pund sawle seynt soul St Edmund's Stigand Suffolk thegn Thorpe Thurstan V. C. H. of Norfolk wife Winchester witnesses Wulfric þæs landes þæt þam þat