Pender's Life and Times

The halls described in the poem beowulf were similar athelbut in kent, had an enterage of francs that came with his wife. And when his daughter married the northumbrian king, she tipped up at her new home with a bunch of kentish ladies and an italian bishop. So the household in which pender spent his youth would have been a reasonably polyglot place. He was to prove very adept at using the contacts he made and in extending them. Christian and pagan, anglo saxon and celtic. These were es that made little difference to pender when he hit his political career after athelbert's death.