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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 39
In these times x the monastery of virgins which they name
Coldingham, 2 and of which we have made mention above. 3
was consumed by fire through fault of carelessness. And
yet all who know have been very easily able to perceive that
it happened from the wickedness of them who dwelt in it,
and especially of those who seamed to be the greater.
But there lacked not a reminder to the guilty of God's
mercy, that corrected by it they might like the Ninevites
" For there were in the same place congregations of monks and of nuns,
59 :
though dwelling apart in different abodes ; and they had gradually declined
from the state of regular discipline, and by dishonourable [in text inponesta ;
read inhonesta] familiarity on either side had offered to the enemy opportunity
of laying hold upon them."
Cuthbert visited Ebba in Coldingham (661 x664.) On the sands there
he passed the night in prayer, in the sea ; when he came out, two otters
followed him and warmed his feet : Anon. Life of St. C., 13, in E.H.S. Bede,.
ii, 266 ; Bede, V.S.C., X, ibid., ii, 68-70 ; Metr. Life, VIII, ibid., ii, 12-13.
When Wilfrid was thrown into prison through his quarrel with king
Egfrid and queen Eormenburg, (Eddi, XXXIV, in Raine's York, i, 49-50,)
Ebba helped to procure his release, in 681 ; Eddi, XXXIX, ibid., 56. Wilfrid
had been placed in custody of Tydlin, prefect of Dunbar ; Eddi, XXXVIII,
54. (W. of M., in G.P., 231, confuses the names.) Egfrid and Eormenburg
visited Coldingham. The queen was suddenly tormented by a devil, and
Ebba turned this incident to Wilfrid's account. Eddi, XXXIX, 55-56.
(Cf. Fridegoda, V.S.W., in Raine's York, i, 137-141 ; Edm., ibid., i, 197-201.)
The conflagration took place after Ebba's death. She is said to have died
on the 25th August, 683, (cf. the Durham obituary in L.V.E.D., 145,) four
years before the death of Cuthbert. She was the daughter of Acha (cf . supra,
616x617, note,) being the "uterine sister" of Oswy and Oswald; Bede,
V.S.C., X, u.s. Thus she was Egfrid's aunt, Bede, H.E., IV, 19, 25 : i, 243,
264. When Egfrid's queen Etheldreda took the veil she passed her first year
as a nun under Ebba in Coldingham, A.D. 672-673 ; Bede, H.E., IV, 19.
Cf. Fl. of W., i, 30 ; Edd., XXXVIII ; R. of H., D.H.E., in Raine's Hexh.
i, 23.
Ebba was buried at Coldingham. Her bones were pilfered by Alfred of
Durham, after A.D. 1022, according to S. of D., i, 88, 168. Nevertheless 150
years later Hugo Candidus, in Sparke, iii, 40, says: "And in Coldingham
[rests] St. Ebba the abbess."
The form Ebbe would better represent Bede's spelling (i, 243, 264) ; cf.
also Eddi, Raine's York, i, 55 ; Fridegoda, ibid., i, 140 ; A.S. Vers. of Bede,
i, 352. S. of D., i, 59.
Before coming to Coldingham she had founded the monastery of Eb-
chester, which is named after her. For works on the life of Ebba v. Hardy,
Cat., i, 288-290. Cf. Bk. of Ely, 36-44. Her name is preserved in St. Abb's
Head, Berwickshire.
1 The previous chapter relates the story and death of Caedmon.
2 " "
Lit. Colud's town ; so H.E., IV, 19, i, 243 ; V.S.C., X, ed. E.H.S.,
ii, 68, Coludi urbem. The A.S. forms, " Colud's burgh," appear variously
spelt in Eddi, XXXIX, Raine's York, i, 55 ; Anon. Life of St. C., 13 ;
A.S. Vers. of Bede, i, 318, 348 ; A.S.C., s.a. 679, MS. E. Coldingham (" the
dwelling of the descendants of Colud ") occurs early, as in S. of D., i, 59 ;
B. of P., i, 96 ; L.V.E.D., 59, 67. Cf. also Lawrie, Charters, 17, 18, 55. All
this may, however, be but folk-etymology ;
for the name Colud seems not to
occur elsewhere.
3 H.E., IV., 19 ; i, 243.