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dreamed : "Boniface, archbishop of Maintz, died 754; Walberga, abbess of Heidenheim, in the diocese of Eichstadt." Alcuin occurs only in a narratio.

The saints of the ninth century include Fremund, with a nar- ratio about Frigdianus, bishop of Lucca ; Edmund of East Anglia, king and martyr, 870; Kenelm of Mercia, king and martyr, 819, with a narratio about Saint Florencius : Wistan, with incidencia that fell " not much before " 849 ; " Edwold, hermit at Shaftes- bury; Swithin, bishop of Winchester, died 861 ; Neot, hermit at St. Neot's in Cornwall, died about 877 ; Clarus, hermit at St. Clair in Normandy, died 894; Grimbald, a monk of St. Bertin, who became abbot of Newminster at Winchester, and died 903 ; Ositha, martyred about 871."

The saints of the tenth century include King Edgar, died 975, one of those added in De Worde's edition : " Edward, king and martyr, murdered at Corfe Castle, 978 : Bishop Odo, died 958," with a narratio of events supposed to have happened in 840 ; Dunstan, died in 988, with a narratio of a sermon by Abbas Macharius ; Elphegus, martyred 1012, with a narratio of a boy Theodore ; Oswald, died 992, with a narratio of the monk Ammonius; Ethelwold, died 984, whose life begins, like many others, with a dream by his mother of his future greatness ; Wulsin, with a nar- ratio about a certain hermit ; " Efleda of Rumsey ; Wlfhilda of Barking, died about 980; Editha of Winchester, daughter of Edgar, died 984 ; Walstan of Bawburgh near Norwich, died 1016, added in De Worde's edition."

The saints of the eleventh century include Edward, king and confessor, 1042-66, with a narratio and prophecy ; Wulstan, bishop of Winchester, 1062-95, with a narratio derived from the chronicles of his time ; " Wallevus, count of Northumberland, beheaded by William the Conqueror in 1075 and buried at Croy- land " — he, however, has not a separate life for himself, but an extract from the chronicles about him is appended to the life of Lanfranc, 1070-1089; Anselm, 1093-1109, with a narratio about Pope Leo; Osmond, bishop of Salisbury, 1078-1099 — this life consists of a series of lections in commemoration of the saint.

The saints of the twelfth century include " the hermits Henry of Coquet, of Danish descent, died 1 127 ; Bartholomew of Fame," with a narratio of a certain proud and ambitious cleric who had supplanted St. Maurice in a church ; Caradoc of St. Ismael's, died