 These late, contradictory statements have garnered a mixed response from modern historians.Some scholars favour Roger's identification or at least the possibility that her name was Eadgyth/Edith.Alan Thacker, for instance, states that "given the strong Mercian connections of Æthelstan himself, it is not at all unlikely that such a woman, if repudiated, should have ended her days in a community in the former heartlands of the Mercian royal family.