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Janet M. Bately The Old English Bede, by Dorothy Whitelock 34/1, p. 43
JANE STEVENSON Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Regents Studies in Medieval Culture, by Seth Lerer 61/2, p. 310

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