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ngl i fuckin love my sonas name and we should bring back Æthelstan as an english name

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2023-02-18

Her name is , yo

And no I didn’t draw this with the sole intention of drawing her hair in the shape of a Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in the 927 which was also believed to have been founded by Cedri

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2022-12-21

Nyanners y Lord Æthelstan son novios ahora, nice congrats.

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2022-05-07

Æthelstan King of the English (r.924-939) presenting the book to the Community of St Cuthbert.

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 183: Bede the Venerable, Two Lives of St Cuthbert; mid 930s; England, S; f.1v
https://t.co/TMDxZJ3foQ

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2021-11-20

' In Claydon Hundred the king has 30 freemen...these are their names: Æthelstan, Godric, Godwine, Offa, Rictan, Goding, Ælfric, Eastrad, Ælfric, Tofa-Hildr, Leofwine, Ælfric, Gunnhvati, Wulfric, Thorkil, Fodric, Edith, Deorsige, Beorhtmær, Leofgifu ... (1/2)

Domesday 1086.

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2021-03-05

It's cold and stupid outside, but this is Æthelstan the eel, and he keeps drafts away. My wife made him for me last year from a sock.

He's named for the Æthelstan in Wulfstan's "Vita Sancti Æethelwoldi" who turned back into an eel because he was an unrepentant hedonist

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2020-02-15

We’re working on a lager brand inspired by King Æthelstan or Athelstan meaning "noble stone” King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 when he conquered the Viking kingdom of York. So we get to play with the holy grail of ligatures; Æ originally representing the Latin dipthong AE.

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2019-09-09