Edmund of East Anglia

Vikings assault Edmund, St. Edmund's Chapel, Ely Cathedral (XIV?)

First published on the Medieval Institute website, Western Michigan University in 2003, this project was an early digital medieval success.   The website Edmund of East Anglia appears here under the auspices of The Heroic Age journal and its editors.  The project is presented without change in content and with as minimal change in coding as possible.  Thanks are due to Bruce Burns for editorial work and coding, to Deanna Forsman co-editor of The Heroic Age, for providing server space, and the Morgan Library for allowing renewed use of images from their manuscript.

Paul E. Szarmch, Editor
Larry Swain, Project Manager

This website brings together research and teaching materials on Edmund, King of East Anglia, who was killed by the Vikings in November, 869. Originally conceived as a parallel-text presentation of Abbo of Fleury’s Passio Eadmundi, Ælfric of Eynsham’s Old English Passio, and the Anglo-Norman anonymous passion—all with serviceable translations, the site quickly grew to incorporate other elements, notably manuscript images, a biography of Abbo, and the Abbo entry in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. The site contains original material expressly created for it as well as reprint material. Future versions will expand texts and images as well as research support material.

As the Acknowledgments section below makes clear, the Editor has many debts to many contributors, for whose cooperation he is very grateful, but he would like to offer special thanks to John Chandler, who has worked through a complicating schedule to complete this version. Gregory Laing made final links to the Old English Online Editions site.

Paul E. Szarmach, Editor