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References
- ↑ Candidus Bruun, Vita Aeigili, in E. Duemmeler, ed. Monumenta Germaniae Historica Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini II (Berlin, 1884), pp. 94-117.
- ↑ Gernot Wieland, "Geminus Stilus: Studies in Anglo-Latin Hagiography," in Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066, ed. Michael W. Herren (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981); Peter Godman, "The Anglo-Latin Opus Geminatum: From Aldhelm to Alcuin," Medium Ævum 50 (1981).
- ↑ Candidus Bruun, Vita Aeigili, p. 94.
