 The text, written in the early 11th century, mentions a sister of King Alfred by the name of Ite, a nun who served as the saint's tutor and had a maidservant called "Osid".Although an Irish nun called St Ita was active in the 7th century, Ite's name has been interpreted as "almost certainly a garbling of Edith" and that of "Osid" a rendering of Osgyth.Yorke prefers to identify the historical figure of Edith with an earlier namesake instead.