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Defunctus est autem Deo dilectus pater Augustinus, et positum
corpus eius foras iuxta ecclesiam beatorum apostolorum Petri et
Pauli, cuius supra meminimus, quia necdum fuerat perfecta nec
dedicata. Mox uero ut dedicata est, intro inlatum et in porticu illius
aquilonali decenter sepultum est[.]
(On the death of our father Augustine, a man beloved of God, his
body was buried outside but close to the church of the apostles St.
Peter and St. Paul mentioned already, for it was not yet either fin-
ished or consecrated. But as soon as it was consecrated, the body
was carried inside and honourably buried in the chapel on the north
side.)51
ok er sæll augustinus geck framm um dauþans dyrr var hann grafínn
utan kirkiu þeirar er helgud uar petro ok paulo guds postolum þviat
þann tima uar hon uuígd En er mustarid uar uigt uar hans signadr
likami sæmilíga greftradr[.]52
(And when the blessed Augustine walked through death’s door, he
was buried outside the church that was devoted to Peter and Paul,
God’s apostles, because at that time it had not been consecrated. But
when the minster was consecrated, his blessed body was honourably
interred.)
6.1 Af Dunstano and Af Lanfranco
The next four chapters tell of St Dunstan and Lanfranc and are chiefly
copied or adapted from Árni Lárentíusson’s (b. 1304) Dunstanus saga.
The compiler of Anecdotes does not adhere to the ordering of the text in
Dunstanus saga but rather mixes and matches the various parts of interest
to him or her (or that fit a particular purpose). Christine E. Fell has edited
Dunstanus saga and compared the extant text with Latin versions of St
Dunstan’s life.53 She finds that Árni Lárentíusson’s main sources were
Adelard’s Vita Sancti Dunstani and Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum histo-
riale, but that Árni’s text also shows influence from Eadmer’s Vita Sancti
Dunstani, the Passio Sancti Eadwardi, and other texts.
51 Bede, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, 142–45.
52 Stowe MS 980, 40r6–9.
53 Dunstanus saga, ed. Christine Elizabeth Fell, Editiones Arnamagnæanæ, Series B, vol. 5
(Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1963).
ANECDOTES OF SEVERAL ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY