Eadwold of Cerne
He left his homeland possibly due to a Viking Invasion, to live as a hermit on a hill about four miles from Cerne, Dorset.[3] He is known from the writing of William of Malmesbury and the Hagiographies of St Eadwold of Cerne, by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin[4] and also the Secgan.Eadwold died on 29 August c. 900, at Cerne and is said to have been buried in his cell, and was later moved to a nearby monastery, dedicated to St Peter.[4] A 2024 study proposed that the Cerne Abbas Giant was created c. 900 CE, depicting Hercules, as a muster station for West Saxon armies to gather but that by the 11th-century, the figure was being reinterpreted as portraying Eadwold, by the monks at the Abbey.[5] Archaeologist Martin Papworth says the image, likely originally clothed, was probably of Eadwold pointing the way to Cerne Abbey.
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