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Saint Alkelda Martyr

Reposed 800 Remembered March 28

St Alkelda was an Anglo-Saxon princess, probably a nun at Middleham in Yorkshire. She is said to have been strangled by Viking women in one of the Danish raids of that time. She has a holy well at Middleham.

["Saint", "Cent08", "Northumbria", "Na0180", "Martyr"]