Overview - Before Ebba- Family - Life - After Ebba - Common Questions
The
Family Returns
Ebba
surfaces
A Call to Cuthbert
Christian factions
Ebba the teacher
Ebba the politician
Two
near-contemporary descriptions of Ebba
Writing shortly after the death of Ebba, Bede and Eddius are the only known and reliable historians for information about Ebba.
 From the banner of the Episcopal Church of St Ebba at Eyemouth |
"There was a nun called Ebba, a real mother of the Lord's
handmaids, in charge of the convent of urbs Coludi, honoured for piety
and nobility alike, for she was King Oswiu's sister" Bede |
 From the side of the pulpit in the Episcopal Church of St Ebba at Eyemouth |
"In the meantime the king and queen were making their progress
through the cities, fortresses, and villages with worldly pomp and
daily feasts and rejoicings, in the course of which they came to the
nunnery of urbs Coludi, The abbess, King Oswiu's sister Ebba, was
a very wise and holy woman" Eddius |