Gyrwas
Gyrwas was the name of an Anglo-Saxon tribe of the Fens, divided into northern and southern groups and recorded in the Tribal Hidage; related to the name of Jarrow.
Thomas, Bishop of Dunwich, in East Anglia, as having been "from the province of the Gyrwas", and deacon to his predecessor, Felix of Burgundy.[4]
References
- ^ Potts, W.T.W., 'The Pre-Danish Estate of Peterborough Abbey', in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 65, 1974: this paper contains some substantive errors, but is of interest.
- ^ Mellows, William Thomas (ed. & trans.), The Peterborough Chronicle of Hugh Candidus, Peterborough Natural History, Scientific and Archæological Society, 1941, p2
- ^ Bede, Ecclesiastical History, iv, 19
- ^ Bede, op. cit., iii, 20.