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Æthelstan (disambiguation)

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Æthelstan (also written Aethelstan, Athelstan or Athelstane) is an Anglo-Saxon name derived from the Old English language Æthel (noble) and stane (stone).

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It can refer to:

People

  • King Æthelstan of England
  • King Æthelstan of East Anglia
  • King Æthelstan of Sussex
  • Æthelstan Half-King, Ealdorman of East Anglia
  • Æthelstan Rota, Ealdorman
  • Æthelstan of Wessex, eldest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
  • Æthelstan Ætheling, eldest son of King Æthelred the Unready
  • Abbot Æthelstan of Abingdon,
  • Bishop Aethelstan of Ramsbury
  • Athelstan (bishop), who was bishop of Elmham
  • Æthelstan, brother of Queen Aelgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Ethelred the Unready
  • Æthelstan, Ealdorman of Devon
  • Æthelstan (Bishop of Hereford), early 11th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop of Hereford
  • Guthrum the Old, who took the baptismal name Æthelstan.
  • Athelstan, son of Tovi the Proud, an 11th-century Anglo-Danish thegn.
  • Æthelstan A, the designation by historians of a scribe to King Æthelstan of England between 928 and 935
  • Athelstan Spilhaus, 20th-century geophysicist
  • Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham

    • Fictional characters

  • Aethelstane, a character in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  • Athelstane, a character in the story The Gods of Bal-Sagoth by Robert E. Howard
  • Athelstan, a Saxon monk kidnapped in the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in the historical fiction series Vikings (TV series)

    • Places

  • Athelstan, Quebec, a small town south of Huntingdon, Quebec in Canada
  • Athelstan, Iowa, a community in the United States
  • Athelstane, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
  • Athelstane (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Athelstane Township, Clay County, Kansas, a township in the United States

    • Other

  • SS Athelstane, a number of steamships with this name
  • Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan series of historical detective novels by P.C. Doherty

    • References

    Æthelstan (disambiguation) Wikipedia
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