Good posts everyone. Very informative paper Gyrth. You should try to get it published somewhere. I was reading through the paper and some of the sources and I was thinking. I do not have great knowledge in this area, but have recently been getting into it. Does anyone think that Athelflaed did not receive proper credit for her work. R.H. Hodgkin once called her "Edward's man-like sister". I think that is very uncomplimentary and somewhat degrading. Sure there were not many female commanders in Saxon England. There certainly were not many, if any at all ever, that wielded the command and resepct shown to Aethelflaed. The role of women in all history, and Anglo-Saxon history, has always been seriously undermined. But that status is changing as recent scholarship over the last 15 years is starting to change that trend. So should this mighty lady, one that greatly responsible for the unification of all English peoples south of the Humber receive more attention and respect for what she has done?