The Medieval Church · c. 850–900
The Old English Martyrology
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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
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
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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