Stelle Factum est itaque, postquam, vergen...; (Vita Wilfridi (709 - 720), p. 90) [43]

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Text Vita Wilfridi (709 - 720) Stephen of Ripon
Quotation Factum est itaque, postquam, vergentibus annorum multorum circulis, sancto rectore nostro aliquando honorifice in exilio degente, et tunc monachis suis per diversa loca totius Brittanniae exterminatis et sub alienis dominis moerentes expectantesque a Domino redemptionem, ut postremo audierunt miserrimae cladis ruinam, Ecgfritho Ultrahumbrensium rege occiso et cum omni optimo exercitus sui agmine a gente Pictorum obpresso.
Translation And so it happened that many years had passed away and our holy prelate was now living honourably in exile; his monks had been banished and scattered into various places throughout the whole of Britain where they were mourning under the power of alien lords and awaiting redemption from the Lord. At last the news came to them of a most woeful disaster in which Ecgfrith, King of the North- umbrians, had been slain and overthrown by the Picts, together with all the flower of his army. (Trans. Colgrave, p. 91)
Quotation source p. 90
Temporal Coverage 686 - 687
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