1. the fourteen-generation pedigree of the Wuffing king Ælfwald
(c.713-749) preserved in the Anglian Collection of Old English royal genealogies
(for a discussion of this important source and its relation to Old English
heroic poetry, see my book,
The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia,
pp.57-64, 77-81, and the references there cited); and
2. the allusions to the East Anglian royal family provided by the famous
Northumbrian monk Bede in his early eighth-century Historia Ecclesiastica
(the most accessible translation is still that by Leo Sherley-Price, Bede:
A History of the English Church and People [Penguin Classics, 1955,
1968]).
For other sources and related studies, see my Wuffing
Studies Reading Lists
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