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The Medieval Church · c. 850–900
The Old English Martyrology
Anonymous
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What it is
Short prose entries for saints through the year, each giving the day, the manner of death, and often a concrete detail found in no other source.
Why it lasted
The earliest martyrology in any European vernacular, drawing on Latin and Greek sources now lost.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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