Alfred The Great

Alfred The Great

male, deceased (899)
Patron of literature, From wantage, Patrons of literature, From Oxfordshire, From berkshire, anglo-saxon…king of the English, OldEnglishlanguage, Old English
Alfred (also "Ælfred" from the Old English: "Ælfrēd" //) (c. 849 - 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871...
J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

male, deceased (1973)
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, author, writer, the silmarillion, middle-earth…english literature, OldEnglishlanguage, English language and literature, Old English, Anglo-Saxon language
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au...
Henry Sweet

Henry Sweet

male, deceased (1912)
Old English, English, Philologist, linguistics, germanic language, philology…OldEnglishlanguage, Early English Text Society, Old Icelandic, Primer of Old Icelandic, Oldest English Texts
Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist, and is also considered to be an early linguist. He specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly...
Nennius

Nennius

1209 years old
Runic alphabet, Arthurian literature, Catholic, Annales Cambriae, 9th century, Historia Brittonum…OldEnglishlanguage, Old English, Welsh language
Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is...
Hereward The Wake

Hereward The Wake

male, 974 years old
Peterborough, modern German, OldEnglishlanguage, New High German, Kingdom of England, Old High German…English, Old English, English folklore, English heroic legends
Hereward the Wake, known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th century leader in the Kingdom of England who...
Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey

male, 66 years old
university of leeds, Science fiction critic, OldEnglishlanguage, Old English, King Edward's School, Birmingham, Oxford University
Thomas Alan Shippey (born September 9, 1943) is a scholar of medieval literature, including Anglo-Saxon England, and of modern fantasy and science...
Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths

male, 61 years old
Hells Angel, Seaham, Tom Leonard, Durham and other sequences, Rousseau and the Wicked, poet…Old English, OldEnglishlanguage
Bill Griffiths (born 1948) is a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival. Griffiths was born in Middlesex. As a...
Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland

male, 68 years old
The Green Child, Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, OldEnglishlanguage, Macmillan Publisher, Kevin John William Crossley-Holland, King of the Middle March…English
Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English children's author and poet. Born in Mursley, North Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf,...

Stephen Harding

male, deceased (1134)
Norman French, Norman language, Sherborne Abbey, Sherbourne, Old English, Citeaux…English, OldEnglishlanguage
Saint Stephen Harding (died March 28, 1134), is a Christian saint and monastic abbot, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order. Stephen Harding...

Byrhtnoth

male, deceased (991)
anglo-saxon, 10th century, noth, killed in battle, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen, Ealdorman…English heroic legends, OldEnglishlanguage, Old English
Byrhtnoth ("Byrhtnoþ", also spelled "Byrhtnoð", "Byrihtnoð", "Brihtnoþ", "Beorhtnoþ", "Beorhtnoð", "Baeorhtnoð") was a 10th century Ealdorm...