Frithegod

London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A. i, 32v, a sheet from Frithegod's poem Breuiloquium uitae Wilfridi, possibly in his own hand made in the mid-10th century.

Frithegod,[a] (flourished circa (c.) 950 to c. 958[1]) was a poet and clergyman in the mid 10th-century who served Oda of Canterbury, an Archbishop of Canterbury. As a non-native of England, he came to Canterbury and entered Oda's service as a teacher and scholar. After Oda's death he likely returned to the continent. His most influential writing was a poem on the life of Wilfrid, an 8th-century bishop and saint, named Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi. Several manuscripts of this poem survive, as well as a few other of Frithegod's poems. He was also known for the complexity of his writings, with one historian even calling them "damnably difficult".

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  2. ^ Sharpe Handlist p. 117
  3. ^ Sharpe Handlist p. 118


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