Viking Wars of Alfred the Great by Paul Hill

Author:Paul Hill [Hill, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781844684854
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

The Life of St Neot

Neot (d. c. 877) was an obscure character. He seems to have been a warrior who later renounced his lifestyle for life in a monastery. He was a sacristan at Glastonbury Abbey but later lived in Cornwall, at first alone, then with a growing group of other monks near Bodmin Moor. He was remembered (and given the status of a saint) because of his good work in caring for the poor. The Cornish village of St Neot and the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots are named after him. Whoever St Neot really was, it is in his Life written in the tenth century that we hear of the famous episodes during Alfred’s time in the winter fastnesses of Somerset, principal amongst which is the famous story of the burning of the cakes and his subsequent chastisement by a swineherd’s wife. By the time of the writing of the Life it was becoming clear that communities such as that at St Neots in Cambridgeshire could benefit from the inclusion in the tales of their own saint the legends of a real man, a figure whose influence crossed the boundaries of Cornish, West Saxon and Mercian spheres of influence.

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