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- ↑ Cullhed, Sigrid Schottenius (2015-02-05). Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba. BRILL. ISBN 9789004289482.
- ↑ Lockett, Leslie (2011-01-01). Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442642171.
- ↑ Bitterli, Dieter (2009-01-01). Say what I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802093523.
- ↑ Schottenius Cullhed, Sigrid (2015). Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba. Leiden: Brill. p. 87.
- ↑ 'Aenigmata "lavreshamensia" [anigmata "anglica"]', ed. by Fr. Glorie, trans. by Karl J. Minst, in Tatuini omnia opera, Variae collectiones aenigmatum merovingicae aetatis, Anonymus de dubiis nominibus, Corpus christianorum: series latina, 133-133a, 2 vols (Turnholt: Brepols, 1968), I 345–58.
- ↑ Patrick J. Murphy, Unriddling the Exeter Riddles (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), p. 4.
- ↑ Bitterli, Dieter (2009-01-01). Say what I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802093523.
- ↑ "Bibliotheca Laureshamensis digital".
- ↑ Lockett, Leslie (2011-01-01). Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442642171.
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