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- ↑ Jenkins, R. T. (1959). "Elfodd, bishop (died 809)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales.
- ↑ II. The Apology Of Nennius. “Here begins the apology of Nennius, the historiographer of the Britons, of the race of Britons. 3. I, Nennius, disciple of St. Elbotus” Translated by J. A. Giles, an asterisk is attached to the name “St Elbotus” stating “Or Elvod, bishop of Bangor, 755 AD, who first adopted in the Cambrian Church, the new(Roman) cycle for regulating Easter
- John Edward Lloyd A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest (Longmans, Green & Co.)
- Thomas Jones, ed. Brut y Tywysogion: Peniarth MS. 20 version (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1952)