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Latin octosyllabic poem by Aldhelm, in which he describes a terrific storm that raged as he passed through Cornwall (Cornubia) on his way to Devon (Domnonia). It is addressed to a certain Lector, casses catholice / atque obses anthletice. The use of casses (helmet) and obses (hostage) has been interpreted as a reference to someone named Helmgisl. Lapidge suggests that Helmgisl may perhaps be identified with Hæmgisl, first abbot of Glastonbury.
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Short, influential and widely disseminated Latin tract on the topic of time-reckoning, written c.703 by the Northumbrian monk Bede. Bede came to revisit this topic at greater length when in c.725 he wrote De tempore rationum.
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Latin-Old English glossary compiled in England in the late 7th century.
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Letter dated to c.775 written by an Anglo-Saxon scholar known as Cathwulf to Charlemagne.
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A collection of prophecies of English kings, which are much indebted to Book VII of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia. Not every manuscript witness contains the full set, but the complete version consists of three texts: (1) Arbor fertilis, about Edward the Confessor’s dream vision concerning the Norman invasion and the accession of Henry II; (2) Sicut rubeum draconem, a king-list running from William I to John; and (3) Mortuo leone, concerning Stephen and Henry II.
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A work written in Latin by the Norman-Welsh clergyman Gerald of Wales in which he gives an ethnographic account of Ireland and her inhabitants. Gerald wrote the work after two visits to relatives in Ireland in the 1180s and later produced a revised recension.
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