A Saint Edith is also mentioned in Conchubran's Life of Saint Modwenna, a female
hermit who supposedly lived near
Burton-on-Trent. The text, written in the early 11th century, mentions a sister of
King Alfred by the name of Ite, a
nun who served as the Kings
tutor and had a
maidservant called Osid. Although an
Irish nun called St Ita was active in the 7th century, Ite's name has been interpreted as "almost certainly a garbling of Edith"[7] and that of Osid a rendering of Osgyth.[8]
^Yorke, Barbara (2003). Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. London. p. 22
^Thacker, Alan (2001). "Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred". In N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill. Edward the Elder 899–924. London: Routledge. p. 257.
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^Thacker, Alan (2001). "Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred". In N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill.
Edward the Elder 899–924. (
Routledge, 2001). p257.
^Robert Bartlett, Geoffrey of Burton. Life and miracles of Modwenna (Clarendon, 2002) pp. xviii-xix.