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Wile E. Coyote
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Aelfgyva (Alfred's gift) is a personification. She is the pure untouched country that Alfred gave.
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Hatty
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In: Berkshire
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| Is Matthew Parker one of the usual suspects? |
Parker was selected to head the new Church of England, in charge of establishing its non-Roman roots at the beginning of Elizabeth's reign. As Wiki puts it
| Parker was one of the primary architects of the Thirty-nine Articles, the defining statements of Anglican doctrine. The Parker collection of early English manuscripts, including the book of St Augustine Gospels and "Version A" of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was created as part of his efforts to demonstrate that the English Church was historically independent from Rome, creating one of the world's most important collections of ancient manuscripts. Along with Lawrence Nowell, Parker's work concerning the Old English literature laid the foundation for Anglo-Saxon studies. |
It was the job of antiquarians such as Leland to provide church 'furniture' since no evidence of a native church, e.g. Celtic or Saxon, existed outside of forged charters. Nowell was the first person to put his name on (the sole copy of) the Beowulf manuscript.
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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I reckon you are clearly onto something with Nowell.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Parker:
You rang, M'lady?
Queen E1:
Yes Parker, do we have any evidence of an early church?
Lawrence Nowell:
Oh yes M'Lady, it's all on the Royal Rolls of Parchment we've just found in your library
Queen E1:
Parker, fetch the Rolls
Parker:
Yus M'Lady, I'll 'ave 'em 'ere hinstantly.
Queen E1:
FAB
This is known as the "Thunderbirds Evidence".
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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And this is only the first Nowell.
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Hatty
Site Admin
In: Berkshire
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| Wile E. Coyote wrote: | | Aelfgyva (Alfred's gift) is a personification. She is the pure untouched country that Alfred gave. |
Elgiva, or Aelfgyfu in Old English, has a variety of personifications as saint, strumpet, queen. But her main purpose was parcelling out land. Generously.
From 'the evidence of land charters' Elgiva came from the royal house of Wessex, a great landowner in Buckinghamshire and daughter of Aethelfgyfu. She was married to King Eadwig aka Edwy, a great-grandson of King Alfred and son of 'St Elgiva'. Duplications of an obscure yet connected person are a feature of witness-lists in land charters, and 'Elgiva' is no exception
A charter dated 966 grants Linslade (10 hides so a 'very substantial estate') on the Bedfordshire-Buckinghamshire border to Elgiva; it includes a whole bunch of estates "centred on Wing* and including Princes Risborough, Bledlow, Whaddon, Haversham, Marsworth, Chesham, Berkhamsted, Hatfield and other more distant manors." The text of the Linslade charter, which meticulously details the estate boundaries, is preserved in Abingdon's 13th century cartulary
[* Wing is on the prehistoric Icknield Way aka Ridgeway. The earliest reference to the manor of Wing is in Elgiva's will, the earliest reference to All Saints' church at Wing dates from shortly after 1066]
| A.D. 966 x 975. Will of Ælfgifu, including bequests of land at Princes Risborough, Bucks., to Old Minster, Winchester; at Bledlow, Bucks., to New Minster, Winchester; at Whaddon, Bucks., to Romsey Abbey; at Chesham, Bucks., to Abingdon and at Wicham to Bath; also at Wing, Linslade and Haversham, Bucks., Hatfield (? Herts.), Masworth, Bucks., and at Gussage (All Saints), Dorset, to the king; at Newnham Murren, Oxon, to the ætheling; at Tæafersceat to Bishop Æthelwold; at Mongewell, Oxon., and at Berkhampstead, Herts., to Ælfweard, Æthelweard and Ælfwaru in common, for life, with reversion to Old Minster, Winchester. English |
Oddly though, only two charters granting land to Elgiva have survived, both grants from King Edgar, so clearly her legacy hangs on her Will (said to be dated 1012, later revised to 'c. 970'). This all-important document is reproduced in the 'Winchester Book' or Codex Wintoniensis, carefully detailing the boundaries. A couple of sentences give a flavour of the Will
...she grants to the Old Minster (Winchester Cathedral) where she gives thanks that her body is to rest, the land at (Princes) Risborough just as it stands, save that she wishes by thy permission that they free in every hamlet every penally enslaved man who was enslaved under her, and two hundred mancuses of gold to that minster. and her shrine with her halidom (collection of relics).
And she grants to the New Minster (at Winchester) the land at Bledlow and a hundred mancuses of gold, and an offering-dish (paten) to the Nuns'Minster (at Winchester); and the land at Whaddon to Romsey (Abbey) for Christ and Saint Mary, and (the land) at Chesham to Abingdon (Abbey), and at Wichom (Wycombe?) to Bath (Abbey). |
Winchester was clearly appreciative, for Elgiva, like Cnut and Emma, was reportedly buried in Winchester's Old Minster.
The Winchester Book was written 'in several phases', all of them quite a lot later than Elgiva's lifetime, though perhaps contemporaneous with the Bayeux Tapestry
| London, British Library, MS Additional 15350 is a mid twelfth-century cartulary known as the Codex Wintoniensis, or ‘Winchester Book’. It was compiled at the Old Minster, Winchester, and is generally considered, thanks to the lavish decorative scheme, to be one of the finest cartularies to survive from pre-Reformation England. Comprising some 119 folios, it was constructed in several stages, between the second quarter of the twelfth century and the second half of the fourteenth. |
Among the charters in the Winchester Book is
| a grand and lengthy charter in which King Edgar (959–75) makes (or is made to make, since much of document has been interpolated) a general confirmation of the endowment and privileges of the Old Minster at Winchester | |
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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| on line wrote: | alb (n.)
late Old English albe "white linen robe" worn by priests, converts, etc., from Late Latin alba (in tunica alba or vestis alba "white vestment"), fem. of albus "white," from PIE root *albho- "white" (source also of Greek alphos "white leprosy," alphiton "barley meal;" Old High German albiz, Old English elfet "swan," literally "the white bird;" Old Church Slavonic and Russian lebedi, Polish łabędź "swan;" Hittite alpash "cloud"). |
Thanks, I found this intriguing but not conclusive. Alfred and of course Aelfgyfu play for Wiley, the historical role of the white pure god and goddess, it is a trusted lineage (good for handing out land). White is a color unstained or untainted, there are no secrets, no hidden agendas. They signify trust. What you see is what you get. He/she also set the future, cf. angels swans.
The red god, on the other hand, is circular /destructive/renewal.
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Hatty
Site Admin
In: Berkshire
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Aren't you forgetting the -gyfu or 'gift' aspect? Elgiva is the one who gives, a major benefactor with, as you say, an aura of trustworthiness via the Alfred connection.
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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| Hatty wrote: | | Aren't you forgetting the -gyfu or 'gift' aspect? Elgiva is the one who gives, a major benefactor with, as you say, an aura of trustworthiness via the Alfred connection. |
Yes, I want that as well.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Is pornography fake?
Pornography - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Pornography (often abbreviated as "porn" or "porno" in informal usage) (From Greek porneia (prostitute) and grapho ("to write or record"), thus meaning "writing about prostitutes", though that may not be very meaningful considering that the word is only found once in Ancient Greek literature | |
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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For your due diligence and dedication, a delightful introduction to the medieval art of a Scriptorium. With original art, reproductions and (whisper it quietly) .. forgeries!
a.k.a. The Name Of The Rose (Series 1, Episode 1)
Now on Al Beeb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00095td/the-name-of-the-rose-series-1-episode-1
William of Baskerville stars in a scholarly WhoDunnit. Clues are scattered widely. Was it the Bishop in the Library with the Candlestick? All will be revealed.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Gave up after a quarter of an hour. Loved the Sean Connery version and (I think, dimly, long ago) the book as well. However it is your duty to watch on and report back. With chapter and verse not URLs. Unless you want to end up in the Grimpen Mire.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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On a more light-hearted theme, the Hiberno-Scottish mission neatly solves another riddle.
How could Sean Connery (with a distinctly Shcottish accent) convincingly play the part of William of Baskerville in "The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco? It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. William of Baskerville alludes both to Sherlock Holmes and to William of Ockham, of "Occam's Razor" fame, much applied and admired by some scholars of Applied Epistemology. The solution to the riddle is that he (William) was rightly a monk from Scotland.
Curiously, William of Ockham is said to have "incorporated much of the work of some previous theologians, especially Duns Scotus" (John Duns, also Scottish).
| The doctrine for which John Duns is best known are the "univocity of being, "that existence is the most abstract concept we have, applicable to everything that exists; the formal distinction, a way of distinguishing between different aspects of the same thing"; and the idea of Haecceity. |
Haecceity might well be the original term for something now commonplace in Information Technology and software design, the existence of Class and Attributes.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Our disciplinary department would like The Name of Anyone here who doesn't apply Occamite principles, Borry. But on a more light-hearted theme, the question arises as to when -- actually whether -- either William of Ockham or Duns Scotius actually lived. I doubt very much it was the fourteenth century.
PS Only applies Occamite principles selectively of course because of our 'no fixed strategies' rule. We must work out what not applying them amounts to.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | Unless you want to end up in the Grimpen Mire. |
Already been there, as (mis)directed by UK Army. T'was on a 50 mile Ten Tors Expedition, c.1969. On the first day people were dropping out because of heat exhaustion and dehydration. On the second day, from hypothermia (much more typical Dartmoor weather).
I'm glad to report that your roving reporter did complete the route, and got a finishers medal, unlike the wimps who dropped out.
No sight or sound of The Hound though, even while camped out on the moor overnight.
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