Lilla

Family: Northumbrians · Role: thegn and servant · First appears: Book II · Chap. IX

Life events

• c. 624 · Lilla died shielding Edwin from Eumer's attack.(Book II · Chap. IX · 📍 river Derwent)
  • With: Edwin
  • “he at once interposed his own body to receive the blow; but the enemy struck home with such force, that he wounded the king through the body of the slaughtered thegn.”

Book II · Chap. IX

• sworn: Edwin “When Lilla, the king’s most devoted servant, saw this, having no buckler at hand to protect the king from death, he at once interposed his own body to receive the blow”
• with Eumer (Eumer killed Lilla while attacking Edwin.) “When Lilla, the king’s most devoted servant, saw this, having no buckler at hand to protect the king from death, he at once interposed his own body to receive the blow; but the enemy struck home with such force, that he wounded the king through the body of the slaughtered thegn.”

Also listed in Northumbrians — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.