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- ↑ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, editor Michael Swanton, Routledge, 1998, 298
- ↑ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 5
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- ↑ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 74