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Saint Earconwald or
Erkenwald (died 693) was a
Saxon prince and
Bishop of
London between 675 and 693. He is the
eponymous subject of one of the most important...
- St
Erkenwald is a fourteenth-century
alliterative poem in
Middle English,
perhaps composed in the late 1380s or
early 1390s. It has
sometimes been attributed...
- by
Saint Erkenwald who was the
first abbot, and from 675 AD the
Bishop of London. At the same time he
founded the
abbey at Chertsey,
Erkenwald founded...
- the
Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have also
composed St.
Erkenwald. The poem is
found solely in the
Pearl m****cript,
Cotton Nero A x. That...
- that
which was
rendered to St. Paul.
Erkenwald would become a
subject of the
important High
Medieval poem St
Erkenwald. King Æthelred the
Unready was buried...
- The
continuing presence of the
shrine of the 7th
century bishop Saint Erkenwald made the
cathedral a site of
pilgrimage in the
Middle Ages. In addition...
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scholars believe that the
Pearl Poet was also the
author of the poem St.
Erkenwald,
which bears stylistic similarities to Gawain. The most
commonly suggested...
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Saint Erkenwald (later
Bishop of London).
Erkenwald founded Chertsey Abbey for himself, and
Barking Abbey for his
sister Saint Ethelburga.
Erkenwald and...
- Cleanness; some
scholars suggest the
author may also have
composed Saint Erkenwald. Save for the last (found in BL-MS
Harley 2250), all
these works are known...
- Knight, Pearl, St.
Erkenwald, and Patience. The
first hint
pointing to M****ey
being the Gawain-poet is in the
Margins of St.
Erkenwald. In the margins,...
