Notes
[1] Psalm 119.
[2] Bede: A History of the English Church and People, iii.14, translation by Leo Sherley-Price, Penguin Classics, 1955.
[3] Ibid. iii.19.
[4] Ibid, iv.23.
[5] Psalm 119 v.18.
[6] Jeremiah 29.v.13.
[7] Mark
[8] Bede, op. cit., iii.17.
[9] Isaiah 55.v.8
[10] At Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. See magnificent grave goods in the British Museum.
[11] From the fragment of an Anglo Saxon poem, The Ruin, translated and quoted by Michael Alexander in The Earliest English Poems, Penguin Classics, 1966.
[12] Psalm 119 v.19
[13] Bede, op.cit. iii.25.
[14] Information taken from Mastering Herbalism by Paul Huson, Abacus, 1974.
[15] Bede, op.cit., iv.2,3.
[16] The Heresy of Eutyches.
[17] From Beowulf, a verse translation by Michael Alexander, Penguin Classics, 1973.
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