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Gyrwas was the name of an Anglo-Saxon population of the Fens, divided into northern and southern groups and recorded in the Tribal Hidage; related to the name of Jarrow. Hugh Candidus, a twelfth-century chronicler of Peterborough Abbey, describes its foundation in the territory of the Gyrwas, under the name of Medeshamstede. Medeshamstede was clearly in the territory of the North Gyrwas. Hugh Candidus explains Gyrwas, which he uses in the present tense, as meaning people "who dwell in the fen, or hard by the fen, since a deep bog is called in the Saxon tongue Gyr". The territory of the South Gyrwas included Ely. Æthelthryth founded Ely monastery after the death of her husband Tondberht, who is described in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as a "prince of the South Gyrwas

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  • Gyrwas was the name of an Anglo-Saxon population of the Fens, divided into northern and southern groups and recorded in the Tribal Hidage; related to the name of Jarrow. Hugh Candidus, a twelfth-century chronicler of Peterborough Abbey, describes its foundation in the territory of the Gyrwas, under the name of Medeshamstede. Medeshamstede was clearly in the territory of the North Gyrwas. Hugh Candidus explains Gyrwas, which he uses in the present tense, as meaning people "who dwell in the fen, or hard by the fen, since a deep bog is called in the Saxon tongue Gyr". The territory of the South Gyrwas included Ely. Æthelthryth founded Ely monastery after the death of her husband Tondberht, who is described in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as a "prince of the South Gyrwas". Bede also described Thomas, Bishop of Dunwich, in East Anglia, as having been "from the province of the Gyrwas", and deacon to his predecessor, Felix of Burgundy. (en)
  • Les Gyrwas sont un peuple anglo-saxon installé dans la région marécageuse des Fens, autour de Medeshamstede (l'actuelle Peterborough). Leur nom même semble dériver du vieil anglais gyr « marais ». Ils apparaissent dans le Tribal Hidage en tant que Suþ gyrwa (« Gyrwas du Sud ») et Norþ gyrwa (« Gyrwas du Nord »), chacun sur un territoire de 600 hides. Ils sont mentionnés à deux reprises par Bède le Vénérable dans son Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais. Celui-ci indique que la princesse est-anglienne Æthelthryth, fondatrice du monastère d'Ely, avait épousé en premières noces Tondberht, prince des Gyrwas du Sud (Australium Gyruiorum), vers 650. Il indique également que Thomas, successeur de Félix de Burgondie à la tête de l'évêché des Angles de l'Est vers la même période, était originaire de « la province des Gyrwas ». (fr)
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  • Gyrwas was the name of an Anglo-Saxon population of the Fens, divided into northern and southern groups and recorded in the Tribal Hidage; related to the name of Jarrow. Hugh Candidus, a twelfth-century chronicler of Peterborough Abbey, describes its foundation in the territory of the Gyrwas, under the name of Medeshamstede. Medeshamstede was clearly in the territory of the North Gyrwas. Hugh Candidus explains Gyrwas, which he uses in the present tense, as meaning people "who dwell in the fen, or hard by the fen, since a deep bog is called in the Saxon tongue Gyr". The territory of the South Gyrwas included Ely. Æthelthryth founded Ely monastery after the death of her husband Tondberht, who is described in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as a "prince of the South Gyrwas (en)
  • Les Gyrwas sont un peuple anglo-saxon installé dans la région marécageuse des Fens, autour de Medeshamstede (l'actuelle Peterborough). Leur nom même semble dériver du vieil anglais gyr « marais ». Ils apparaissent dans le Tribal Hidage en tant que Suþ gyrwa (« Gyrwas du Sud ») et Norþ gyrwa (« Gyrwas du Nord »), chacun sur un territoire de 600 hides. (fr)
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