Werferth
Werferth (Wærferth, Werfrith, or Waerfrith) was an English bishop of Worcester.
Werferth was consecrated either in 872 or between 869 and 872. A contemporary and friend of Alfred the Great, he was a significant translator, from Latin into Old English. His translations include the Dialogues of Gregory, commissioned by Alfred. He died either in 915 or between 907 and 915.
Citations
References
Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign accessed on 6 September 2007
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
External links
Wærfrith 6 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England