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Google Books isn't particularly helpful, but this antiphon or related prayers do indeed seem to be discussed in: Albert d'Haenens, Les invasions normandes en Belgique au IXe siècle (Louvain, 1967)


> BRIGGS JOHN wrote:
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>     "Cormack, Margaret Jean" wrote: 
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>         > > A student is trying to find the following: 
> > 
> >         'an antiphony for churches dedicated to St. Vaast or St. Medard: Summa pia gratia nostra conservando corpora et cutodita, de gente fera Normannica nos libera, quae nostra vastat, Deus, regna,"Our supreme and holy Grace, protecting us and ours, deliver us, God, from the savage race of Northmen which lays waste our realms"' The reference is to Magnús Magnússon, Vikings, 1980  p. 61
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> >     > 
>     The Wikipedia reference is actually ambiguous: can you be sure that this isn't to be found in the D'Haenens 1967 book?
> 
>     John Briggs
> 

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