caa a22 4500 386310572 CHVBK 20180307111544.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004014 doi S0263675100004014 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004014 Lapidge Michael The University of Cambridge A Frankish scholar in tenth-century England: Frithegod of Canterbury/Fredegaud of Brioude [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Lapidge] In 948 King Eadred of Wessex conducted a military campaign in Northumbria against Eric Blood-Axe. During the course of this campaign the minster church at Ripon - which had been founded by St Wilfrid and which housed his remains - was burnt down. This unfortunate incident was used as the pretext for a notorious furta sacra: the relics of St Wilfrid were seized and were duly conveyed to Archbishop Oda of Canterbury. In order to celebrate the acquisition of these distinguished relics, Oda built a new altar in honour of St Wilfrid and commissioned a member of his Canterbury household, one Frithegod, to compose a poem in honour of St Wilfrid. Frithegod responded by producing the Breuiloquium uitae Wilfridi, a poem of some 1,400 Latin hexameters which is closely based on the early eighth-century prose Vita S. Wilfridi by Stephanus or Stephen of Ripon. Since the poem bears in its closing lines a dedication to Archbishop Oda, it must have been finished before the archbishop's death on 2 June 958; in other words, it was written between 948 and 958. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 45-65 0263-6751 17<45 1988 17 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004014 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004014 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lapidge Michael The University of Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 45-65 0263-6751 17<45 1988 17 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge