The life and career of Rædwald of East Anglia is known
principally from Bede's
Historia ecclesiastica
and the anonymous Whitby
Life of Gregory the Great
. It has been posited that Rædwald might be the individual
interred in mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, an illustrious ship-burial in
modern Suffolk.
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Fenton, Albert. "Raedwald of East Anglia dies; probably buried at Sutton Hoo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 April 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1921, accessed 28 March 2024.]
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