De primo Saxonum adventu

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The god Woden, legendary ancestor of several Anglo-Saxon royal lines, as depicted in a copy of De primo Saxonum adventu (British Library Cotton MS Caligula A VIII f. 29r).

De primo Saxonum adventu is a historical work, probably written in

earls of Northumbria.[1]

Although it exists in many recensions updated in later years, the earliest version contains a list of Durham bishops, ending with Ranulf Flambard.[1] It was written in the time of Symeon of Durham, and thus Symeon may have had a role in the authorship of the text.[1] It appears to be related to a text called the Series regum Northymbrensium, a list of rulers of Northumbria beginning with Ida and ending with Henry I, a text existing only in the manuscript Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27, one of the ten manuscripts containing the Libellus de exordio.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Rollason (ed.), Libellus de Exordio, p. lxxix.
  2. ^ "De primo Saxonum adventu - Brill Reference". Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  3. ^ Rollason (ed.), Libellus de Exordio, pp. lxxix—lxxx.

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