Cynifrid

Role: physician · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XIX

Life events

• c. 678 · Ethelthryth’s body was found incorrupt, and the wound from her illness had healed.(Book IV · Chap. XIX)
  • With: Ethelthryth Sexburg
  • “I found the body of the holy virgin taken out of the grave and laid on a bed, like one asleep; then taking off the veil from the face, they also showed me that the incision which I had made was healed up”

Book IV · Chap. XIX

• with Ethelthryth (Cynifrid attended Ethelthryth as her physician.) “But the physician, Cynifrid, who was present at her death, and when she was taken up out of the grave, had more certain knowledge.”

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