--- "B.M.COOK" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 26 Oct Chad and Cedd,
bishops
>
> ???? Aren't they the same man ? One spelled by the Anglo-Saxon scribe
> and
> the other by a Norman-French one ?
Very much not so; they were brothers.
"There were then tour brothers whom we have mentioned, Cedd, Cynebill,
Cælin and Chad" (Cedd et Cynibill et Cælin et Ceadda) - Venemous Bead,
HE, III.23.
"Cynebill" would translate as "Keen Bill" which would describe me very
well, if I needed a nickname.
>
> BTW Congratulations, Oriens, on your new appointment.
Thanks,
The Keen Dean.
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