Odulf

Evesham Abbey bell tower

Odwulf of Evesham, also known as Odulf,[1] was a ninth century saint,[2] monk and Frisian missionary.[3] He died in 855AD.[4]

He is recorded in the Medieval Secgan Hagiography[5] the Medieval Hagiography of Saint Ecgwine[6] and the Ave presul glorioseI Augustine psalter, where his linked with Oda of Canterbury, hagiography of St Odulf, and Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham[7]

He is buried in Evesham,[8] with Saints Ecgwine and Wigstan.[9]

References

  1. ↑ William George Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to that of King John. (Cambridge University Press, 2012)Page 363.
  2. ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press.
  3. ↑ Emma Hornby, David Nicholas Maw, Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) pager 19.
  4. ↑ Emma Hornby, David Nicholas Maw, Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) pager 19.
  5. ↑ Stowe MS 944, British Library
  6. ↑ On St. Odulf see ‘The Medieval Hagiography of Saint Ecgwine’, p.79 & p.83. This notes that Abbot Ælfweard occupied himself with increasing Evesham’s prestige, and purchased the relics of Saint Odulf.
  7. ↑ Mullins, E. L. C. (1958). Texts and Calendars I: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks No. 7. London: Royal Historical Society.
  8. ↑ Evesham Abbey and the Parish Churches: A Guide, p.8; The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, p.387
  9. ↑ Emma Hornby, David Nicholas Maw, Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) page 10.
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