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- Ælfgifu (also Ælfgyfu; Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva) is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, from ælf "elf" and gifu "gift". When Emma of Normandy, the...
- following verse is attributed to her contemporary, the skald Sigvatr: Ælfgyfu's time long will the young man remember, when they at home ate ox's food...
- mentioned in the prologue to the book on Glastonbury A metrical life of St Ælfgyfu is quoted in the Gesta pontifi**** Chronica tribus libellis are mentioned...
- 966 Abbess Elwina 992 Abbess Æthelflæda 1003 Abbess Wulfynn 1016 Abbess Ælfgyfu 1042 Abbess Cristina 1093 Daughter of Edward the Exile Incomplete records...
- means 'Mæssa's enclosure'. Marsworth is first mentioned in the will of Aelfgyfu (before 975) as granted to Edgar of England who in turn p****ed it to St...
- dearly remembered for her generosity and conceivably so was her mother: Ælfgyfu coniunx Eadwigi regis and Æþelgyfu, who may be her mother, appear on a...