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hand-out from Tours? This question was answered in the affirmative
by Dom Jean Deshusses, by whose kind permission I quote his letter
of 1 January, 1976:
Il me semble qu’on peut tenir pour vraisemblable: 1. la présence de cette
postcommunion dans la messe gallicane raccourcie per le Gothicum (GaG
472-476) pour S. Martin; 2. l’utilisation de cette messe (y compris Populum)
å Tours å la fin du Ville siécle; 3. son passage en Baviére, du fait de son inté-
gration dans le sacramentaire, modéle du sacramentaire de Prague, venu de
Tours probablement; 4. la correction par Alcuin, vers 800 (élimination de
l’incise), d’ou vient le texte de Trente (Salzbourg), Baturich et Worcester.
Thus, our postcommunion, with the incise, is likely to have reached
England before the abolition of the Gallican rite.
The early Icelandic sources mention missionaries, English, Irish, and
German. Among the English party was one Ru&olfr, who remained in
Iceland for nineteen years and is said to have lived at Bær in the Borg-
arfjor&ur. He has been tentatively identified with RoSulf of the Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle, ‘quidam de Norvegia gente episcopus’, who was
made abbot of Abingdon after his return from Iceland, by King
Edward the Confessor in about 1050.9
9 See D. Knowles, The Monastic Order in England2 (Cambridge 1949), p. 68;
Byskupa SQgur, 1 (1938), pp. 80 sq.
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