Talk:Battle of Ellendun

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Dekimasu in topic Requested move 3 August 2018

Ellandun/Ellendun edit

The spelling of this place is Ellendun, not Ellandun. Ellendun is the spelling used by Keynes and Lapidge in their introduction to Asser's Life of King Alfred, by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and by Sir Frank Stenton in his seminal work 'Anglo-Saxon England'. Someone with the skills should change it.

Dantes Warden Dantes Warden (talk) 14:34, 13 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

I agree. It is also Ellendun in the DNB article on Beornwulf at [1] (but Wroughton in the article on Ecgberht), in the article on Ecgberht in A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, and in The New Cambridge Medieval History II. Any other views? If not, I will change it. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:24, 13 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 3 August 2018 edit

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the rationale below. Dekimasuよ! 18:45, 10 August 2018 (UTC)Reply


Battle of EllandunBattle of Ellendun – I have raised this before and I am returning to it because Rory Naismith, a King's College historian, commented in a peer review of an article I have submitted to the WikiJournal of Humanities on the spelling Ellandun "More recent scholarship prefers the spelling from ASC MS A, Ellendun." In addition to the sources cited above it is Ellendun in Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England by Ann Williams and Wessex in the Early Middle Ages by Barbara Yorke. Dudley Miles (talk) 18:17, 3 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England also uses Ellendun. – Swa cwæð Ælfgar (talk) 21:52, 3 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

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