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Alea evangelii
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Alea evangelii is a member of the tafl family of games. Known from an illustration and account in Latin in an eleventh-century Irish manuscript where it is given a Christian scriptural context, the ga
Diagram illustrating a variant of the Tafl game, from the 12th century manuscript CCC MS. 122
Diagram illustrating a variant of the Tafl game, from the 12th century manuscript CCC MS. 122
Æthelstan
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Æthelstan or Athelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern hi
Alea evangelii
…written in an Irish hand and is commonly dated to the eleventh century. The description of the game states that it was invented at the court of King Æthelstan of England (924–939) by two learned men: an anonymous Frank and Israel the Grammarian, one of the leading European scholars of his time. The diagram…
Æthelstan
Æthelstan presenting a book to St Cuthbert, an illustration in a manuscript of Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert, probably presented to the saint's shrine
Æthelstan presenting a book to St Cuthbert, an illustration in a manuscript of Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert, probably presented to the saint's shrine in Chester-le-Street in County Durham by Æthelstan when he visited the shrine on his journey to Scotland in 934. He wore a crown of a similar design on his crowned bust coins. It is the oldest surviving portrait of an English king, and the manuscript is the oldest surviving made for an English king.
Statue in Tamworth, Staffordshire of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her young nephew Æthelstan
Statue in Tamworth, Staffordshire of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her young nephew Æthelstan
Silver penny of King Æthelstan
Silver penny of King Æthelstan
A sixteenth-century painting in Beverley Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire of King Æthelstan with Saint John of Beverley
A sixteenth-century painting in Beverley Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire of King Æthelstan with Saint John of Beverley