Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians was one of the greatest, if least known women in British history. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex and a scholar as well as a capable military leader. With her husband Æthelred, and later with her brother King Edward the Elder, she was responsible for pushing the vikings out of large parts of England. She also raised and educated her nephew Æthelstan, who would later become the first King of all England. The Norman historian William of Malmesbury described her as "a woman of enlarged soul". One of the stories told of her is how she arranged for the return of the remains of the royal Northumbrian saint, Oswald, from Lindisfarne to the new Gloucester minster she had built. In recogonition of this, I've placed the Lindisfarne Gospels on her lectern, one of the gretest illuminated manuscripts of the Saxon era. These were translated in the 10th century to become the oldest version of the bible (or bits of it at least) in English.