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- 1 2 Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Lives of the British Saints, vol. IV. London. The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1913, p. 180
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . - ↑ Lloyd, John Edward (1959). "CYBI (fl. 550), saint". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales.
- ↑ Baring-Gould, Sabine. "A Book of Cornwall', Methuen, 1906, p. 211
- ↑ Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Volume 19, Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1912, p. 430
- ↑ Doble, G. H., (1960) The Saints of Cornwall: part 1. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 3-9
- ↑ Watts, Victor (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
