sentences:  It describes Seaxwulf as a recently orphaned foreigner, and this biographical detail is not found in any other known, surviving source.Blair's "reasonable conjecture" suggests in effect that Seaxwulf may have been a member of local royalty, since Bede records the existence of a prince of the Gyrwas.Meanwhile, Dorothy Whitelock believed that Seaxwulf had probably been educated in East Anglia, given the heathen state of Mercia prior to the mid 7th century.