On Wed, 22 May 1996, Simon Marchini wrote:
> Has anybody any information about St. Guthlac - other than the life of by
> Felix of Dunwich
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> Simon Marchini
You can begin with the Anglo-Saxon poem (not the Life) in the Exeter
Book. It is discussed in Greenfield and Calder's _A New Critical History
of Old English Literature_. Their bibliography is sufficient for an
introduction. A good translation is S.A.J. Bradley's in the Everyman
_Anglo-Saxon Poetry_. The author of the Life is usually called Felix of
Crowland, as far as I can remember. The Latin Life (s.viii) and an
11th-century AS prose life are in Das angelsachsische Prosa-Leben des hl.
Guthlac, by Gonser (Heidelberg, 1909). See also pp.xxx-xxxiii in Krapp
and Dobbie, _The Exeter Book_, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, vol. 3. They
include a short bibliography. For more information, see the Old English
Newsletter, Greenfield and Robinson's _Bibliography of
Publications_(1980), or the standard works on saints' lives.
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