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- ↑ Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (New ed.), (Oxford University Press, 2002).
- ↑ Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, (Oxford University Press, 2002).
- ↑ D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978), p. 62 .
- ↑ Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, (Oxford University Press, 2002).
- ↑ Michael Lapidge, Helmut Gneuss, Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday (Cambridge University Press, 1985) page 199.
- ↑ "Wynnthryth 1". Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England .
- ↑ Michael Lapidge, Helmut Gneuss, Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday (Cambridge University Press, 1985) page 199.
- ↑ Whitelock Et LA, Councils and Synods (part 1) page 41.
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