Publication Date
2013
Keywords
Aethelflaed, Mercian queens
Abstract
This paper examines the place of Aethelflaed, Queen of the Mercians, in the written historical record. Looking at works like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Irish Annals, we find a woman whose rule acted as both a complement to and a corruption against the consolidations of Alfred the Great and Edward’s rule in Anglo-Saxon England. The alternative histories written by the Mercians and the Celtic areas of Ireland and Wales show us an alternative view to the colonization and solidification of West-Saxon rule.
Recommended Citation
Klimek, Kim
(2013)
"Aethelflaed: History and Legend,"
Quidditas: Vol. 34, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol34/iss1/2
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