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The story concerns John Scotus Erigena (d.877), and is--if I recall correctly: notes are not at hand--a very late story, recounted, I think, by William of Malmesbury (?). The story would then date from around the time that Erigena's reputation as a heretic, a pantheist, was becoming formalized, and his teachings rejected. Not a very credible story in any case...but in the age of the ball-point... Gary Dickson University of Edinburgh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%