This is a difficult one… On the one hand, the late seventh-century St Æthelthryth, alias Etheldreda, founded the interesting Anglo-Saxon minster of Ædeldreðestowe (Stow Green, Threekingham) in Lincolnshire, which seems to have been carved out of the regio of the Billingas…https://twitter.com/HaveloktheDutch/status/1183623255787220995 …
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On the other hand, it has been suggested by James Campbell that both Benedict Biscop and Bede were descended from the royal line of the Lindisfaran/the kingdom of Lindissi (Lindsey)…pic.twitter.com/Mzl2HryQ6E
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
What publication is that from? Sounds like an interesting theory.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
He suggests it in passing in his new DNB entry for Bede & this is picked up by Alan Thacker in DeGregorio (ed.), Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede, full refs in paper at end of thread :)
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