Fontes Anglo-Saxonici

location

quote

target

4.204-212

item gesta sanctorum … esse putantur

Aelfric

Lives 14 (St George)

M3a

multiple source (one of two or more immediate sources cited for the passage)

possible

and

gedwolmen … georius

1-2

Skeat 1881-1900

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Bibliography:: Hill 1985a, 4

Contributor:: R. Jayatilaka

Created:: 1997-05-30

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R. Jayatilaka, Aelfric: Lives 14 (St George), Skeat 1881-1900, 1997-05-30, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-03-16

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	R. Jayatilaka
Text:	Aelfric: Lives 14 (St George)
Edition:	Skeat 1881-1900
Reference:	C.B.1.3.15
Created:	1997-05-30
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-16

4.212-214

sicut georgii … conpositae

Aelfric

Lives 14 (St George)

M3a

multiple source (one of two or more immediate sources cited for the passage)

possible

and

gedwolmen … georius

1-2

Skeat 1881-1900

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Bibliography:: Hill 1985a, 4

Contributor:: R. Jayatilaka

Created:: 1997-05-30

How to cite

For referencing this record, please use the following:

R. Jayatilaka, Aelfric: Lives 14 (St George), Skeat 1881-1900, 1997-05-30, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-03-16

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	R. Jayatilaka
Text:	Aelfric: Lives 14 (St George)
Edition:	Skeat 1881-1900
Reference:	C.B.1.3.15
Created:	1997-05-30
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-16

5.280-281

liber de nativitate salvatoris et de maria vel obstetrice

Aelfric

Assmann 3 (Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

single immediate source

probable

ac we nellað … þa wisan lareowas

5-8a

Assmann 1889, 24-48

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Comment:: Analogues share Gelasian decree's condemnation of apocryphal tales of Mary's birth, were doubtless influenced by it. Attitude to apocrypha shared by other texts, possibly not sole source of condemnation.

Contributor:: Mary Clayton

Created:: 1990-12-31

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Mary Clayton, Aelfric: Assmann 3 (Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Assmann 1889, 1990-12-31, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-03-16

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Mary Clayton
Text:	Aelfric: Assmann 3 (Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
Edition:	Assmann 1889, 24-48
Reference:	C.B.1.5.8
Created:	1990-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-16