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Hilda appears as a main character in Melvyn Bragg's 1996 novel, Credo. [21] The 2013 novel Hild and 2023 sequel Menewood by Nicola Griffith is based on the life of Hilda. [22] Jill Dalladay's 2015 novel The Abbess of Whitby combines historical record and fiction to imagine Hilda's life before she became a nun. [23]
Hild is a 2013 historical novel and the sixth novel by British author Nicola Griffith. Hild is a fictionalized telling of the life of Hilda of Whitby, also known as Hild of Streoneshalh, a significant figure in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
Hild or Hilda of Whitby is a Christian saint who was a British abbess and nun in the Middle Ages; Hild (Oh My Goddess!), the ultimate Demon in Hell known as the DaimakaichÅ in the Oh My Goddess! series; Hild, a 2013 novel about Hilda of Whitby by Nicola Griffith
The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.
She served at the monastic cell in the nunnery of Hackness, near Scarborough which was built by St Hilda of Whitby shortly before her death. Begu was the woman who claimed to have witnessed Hilda's soul being borne to heaven by angels when Hilda died on 17 November 680. Tradition states that at the moment of Hilda's passing, the bells tolled.
She was abbess of Whitby Abbey, an abbey of nuns that were known for their skills in medicine, from the death of her kinswoman Hilda in 680, first jointly with her mother, then alone. Ælfflæd was particularly known for her skills in surgery and her personal attention to patients, as was Hilda, who was known for her personalized medical care. [1]
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The town has a strong literary tradition; it can even be said that the earliest English literature comes from Whitby as Cædmon, the first known Anglo Saxon poet [124] was a monk at the order that used Whitby Abbey during the abbacy of St Hilda (657–680). [125]