Texts
Versus de beati Blaithmaic (Walahfrid Strabo)
Incoming data
Short metrical life on the martyrdom of Blathmac (d. 825), abbot of Iona, composed in Latin hexametera by Walahfrid Strabo (d. 849), Benedictine monk and scholar at the monastery of Reichenau. Blathmac was killed when Vikings attacked the island of Iona.
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[ed.] [tr.] Pörnbacher, Mechthild, Zwei Legenden: versus Strabi de beati Blaithmaic vita et fine; De vita et fine Mammae monachi, 2nd ed., Reichenauer Texte und Bilder, 7, Heidelberg: Mattes, 2012.
Text and German translation
[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst [ed.], Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 2, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1884.
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297–301 (on the manuscript, see 264) direct link
