Merdrignac, Bernard, “La procédure d’usucapion dans la Vita Leonorii (IXe siècle) ?”, Études Celtiques 29 (1992): 299–310.
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[EN] The ‘usucapio’ procedure in the Vita Leonorii.
The Vita of Saint Lunaire has generally been ignored by historians with the excuse that it was only a folklore tale. N.K. Chadwick and L. Fleuriot alone drew attention to the historically interesting chapters relating the settlement of British migrants.
The recent discovery of fragments of a Carolingian manuscript with precisely that episode invites us to reexamine its importance. All the versions agree in extending to 89 days the length of clearing-work. This span of time corresponds to that of spring season in the Celtic calendar, a period during which Insular laws provide for an interruption of judiciary prosecutions in the case of usurpated inheritance.
Why then the successive hagiographs could not have transmitted here an authentic tradition ?
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