Egburg

Egburg (also Egburga, Ecburg) was a 9th-century abbess about whom little is known. A letter by her remains in the Boniface correspondence, in which she writes to Saint Boniface of her grief. The letter evidences that she was highly learned--according to Eleanor Duckett, "Her letter is short, and her misery is very great; she manages, however, to bring in four reminiscences of Vergil's Aeneid, two of various writings of Aldhelm of Malmesbury ..., two of a letter written by Jerome to the monk Rufinus, together with at least half a dozen quotations from the Bible".[1] Lina Eckenstein proposes she might have been a daughter of Ealdwulf, king of East Anglia, and the abbess of Repton.[2]

References
  1. Duckett, Eleanor S. (1947). Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars. New York: Macmillan. p. 361.
  2. Eckenstein, Lina (1963) [1896]. Woman under Monasticism. New York: Russell and Russell. pp. 109, 125.


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