Be wergildum 7 be geðinðum (Geþyncðo)
This is a tract on the change of status, setting down what the criteria for social climbing had been in the past. It was seemingly composed by Archbishop Wulfstan of York (1002-1023) and the context is clearly the social upheaval caused by the Viking attacks. The text exists in several manuscript collections.
Contents
Print editions
Manuscripts
- D: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 201, pp. 101-102
description & facsimiles - Hk: London, British Library, MS Additional 49366, fos. 96r-97r
description & facsimiles - M: Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS Lat. 420, fos. 78r-78v
description & facsimiles - R: London, British Library, MS Royal 11 B.II, fos. 143v-144r
description & facsimiles - T: London, British Library, MS Cotton Titus A.XXVII, fos. 149v-150r
description & facsimiles