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.—See also:Primary : The Saxon See also:Chronicle, sub See also:ann
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; See also: 132-142; D.N.B., s.v . (A . Mw.) 1ETHELWEARD (ETIIELWARD), Anglo-Saxon historian, was the See also:great-See also:grandson of /See also:Ethelred, the See also:brother of See also:Alfred, and ealdorman or See also:earl of the western provinces (i.e. probably of the whole of Wessex) . He first signs as See also:dux or ealdorman in 973, and continues to sign until 998, about which See also:time his See also:death must have taken See also:place . In the See also:year 991 he was associated with See also:archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a See also:peace with the victorious Danes from See also:Maldon, and in g94 he was sent with See also:Bishop IElfheah (See also:Alphege) of See also:Winchester to make peace with See also:Olaf at See also:Andover . JEthelweard was the author of a Latin Chronicle extending to the year 975 . Up to the year 892 he is largely dependent on the Saxon Chronicle, with a few details of his own; later he is largely See also:independent of it . /Ethelweard gave himself the bombastic See also:title " Patricius See also:Consul See also:Quaestor Ethelwerdus," and unfortunately this title is only too characteristic of the See also:man . His narrative is highly rhetorical, and as he at the same time attempts more than Tacitean brevity his narrative is often very obscure . AEthelweard was the friend and See also:patron of /Elfric the grammarian . Cartularium Saxonicum; A.S . Laws (ed . Liebermann), pp . 220-224; Fabii Ethelwerdi Chron., Mon . Hist . Brit . 449-454 . Secondary: Plummer, Saxon Chronicle, vol. ii. p. ci.; See also:Napier and See also:Stevenson, See also:Crawford Charters, pp . 118-120; D.N.B., s.v . (A . |
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