Æthelburg (or Ethelburga): Saint, Abbess, Badass
When the Vikings arrived to pillage Barking Abbey, the power of Æthelburg’s holiness brought wild animals to protect her tomb.
When the Vikings arrived to pillage Barking Abbey, the power of Æthelburg’s holiness brought wild animals to protect her tomb.
To the late Anglo-Saxons the Amazons were women but not as they knew them: queens who ruled rather than queens consort, as well as conquerors, warriors, pagans, self-mutilators, from elsewhere.
The Seafarer describes the irresistible call to sea and his experiences on the ocean, but this is a poem of the mind.