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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 61
? 870
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA> VOL. 1, PP. 391-392. 1
Of the admirable deed of the holy abbess Ebba.
In the year of the Lord 870 an innumerable host of Danes
landed in Scotland ;
and their leaders were Inguar and Hubba ,
men of terrible wickedness and unheard-of bravery. And they,
striving to depopulate the territories of all England, slaughtered
all the boys and old men whom they found, and commanded
that the matrons, nuns and maidens should be given up to
wantonness.
And when such plundering brutality had pervaded all territories
of the kingdoms, Ebba, holy abbess of the cloister of
Coldingham, feared that she too, to whom had been intrusted
the care of government and the pastoral care, might be given
up to the lust of pagans and lose her maiden chastity, along
with the virgins under her rule and she called ;
together all the
sisters into the chapter-house, and burst into speech in this
wise, saying, " Recently have come into our parts the wickedest
pagans, ignorant of any kind of humanity ; and roaming through
every part of this district they spare neither the sex of woman
nor the age of child, and they destroy churches and churchmen,
prostitute nuns, and break up and burn everything they come
upon. Therefore if you decide to acquiesce in my advice, I
conceive a sure hope that by divine mercy we may be able both
to escape the fury of the barbarians and to preserve the chastity
of perpetual virginity."
And when the whole congregation of virgins had undertaken
with sure promises that they would in all things obey the commands
of their mother, that abbess of admirable heroism
showed before all the sisters an example of chastity not only
advantageous for those nuns but also eternally to be followed
by all succeeding virgins : she took a sharp knife and cut off
her own nose and upper lip to the teeth, offering a dreadful
[White] Adder on the north as far as to the place where it falls into the Tweed ;
and all the land which lies between the river [White] Adder and another river
which is called the Leader, towards the west ; and all the land which lies
on the eastern side of that river which is called Leader, as far as to the place
where it falls into the Tweed, towards the south ; and all the land which
pertains to the monastery of St. Baldred, and is called Tyningham, from
Lammermoor even to Eskmouth."
Among the lands granted (posthumously) by king Oswin to Cuthbert
are named several vills of Roxburgh, in the valleys of the Bowmont and the
Kale ; His. de S.C., in S. of D., i, 197.
1 This story appears also in Fl. His., i, 432-433, s.a. 870. It is unknown
to S. of D., H.R., ii, 104 ; to Hugo Candidus, in Sparke, iii, 14.
For Inguar and Hubba cf. Ethelw., in M.H.B., 512-514.