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Congratulations to @mhssly on the fantastic victory @DoncasterRaces on #CoronationDay for #Torfrida the filly, named after #HerewardTheWake's wife. Here's to many more successful races for such a beautiful horse with the magical name, we will be cheering her on!
#WakeHereward
Tostig was exiled in #Flanders late 1065 & spent time at #StOmer at the same time that #Hereward was exiled in Flanders. How much did these two volatile characters know each other when o e considers that Hereward's wife #Torfrida came from St. Omer?
#Battle1066 #HerewardTheWake
2) .. popularity of the #CharlesKingsley novel #HerewardTheWake.
ANSWERS: Q1. Real name of Hereward's wife is #TORFRIDA she came from SAINT OMER in FLANDERS. Q2. She became a NUN at CROWLAND ABBEY and 3: They had one child a GIRL whose name was also TORFRIDA. Image by HC Selous.
The legend says that #Hereward was buried alongside his Flemish wife #Torfrida at #CrowlandAbbey. In this image by #HCSelous from #Kingsley's novel, she is teaching him how to pray. They married in #SaintOmer & she joined him in the #Ely rebellion against #WilliamTheConqueror.
Fantastic @CPBurrage I like this very much, good work and good use of the available images. Thankyou! All the best with your other work. The image here is of #Hereward with his wife #Torfrida, by #HCSelous (1870).
@DavidACMaile Dear David, I run a YouTube channel dedicated to British Folklore, Myths and Legends and have just completed a video on folklore of the fens, featuring Hereward the Wake. I thought you may like to see it! https://t.co/ssWP7lfxH8
Fantastic tale from Julia Philips, of how #HerewardTheWake and his witch-wife #Torfrida confounded the magic-augmented Normans in battle
#TodmordenWitch19 @CentreMyth
#Hereward & his #BandOfMen enter the monastery at #StBertin, by #HCSelous (1870) and the ruins as it is today. It was in #StOmer according to the #GestaHerwardi that #Hereward met his wife #Torfrida.
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#Hereward's first interview with his future wife, #Torfrida of St.Omer by HC Selous (1870) - it's said she advised him on all he did. During the rebellion against the Normans she retired to #CrowlandAbbey where legend says they are buried side by side. #Battle1066
#Torfrida is shocked to see #Hereward and falls into his arms. They married in #Flanders & the #GestaHerwardi says Hereward brought her to the #Fenlands & she eventually became a nun in #CrowlandAbbey, where legend says they are buried together side by side.
Image: #ArthurADixon
Ans: #CrowlandAbbey is where legendary warriors #Guthlac #Waltheof & #Hereward are said to be buried. Hereward alongside his wife #Torfrida.
'An Endless Exile' by #MaryLancaster (2005). 'The love story of #Hereward' told from the p.o.v of his wife #Torfrida
@WakeHereward Hereward married a second wife after #Torfrida entered a convent. She was called #Alftruda, the widow of #EarlDolfin #TheGesta
'An Endless Exile' #MaryLancaster (Baldud Books 2005). Written from the point of view of #Hereward's wife, #Torfrida
#IWD2016 - #Torfrida of #SaintOmer, #Flanders, wife of #Hereward - it's said she advised him on all he did...
#AnEndlessExile by #MaryLancaster (Bladud 2005) A love story of #HerewardTheWake from the POV of his wife #Torfrida
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