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Lupus of Ferrières wrote this life of Wigbert, an Anglo-Saxon companion of Boniface and abbot of Fritzlar, at the request of Abbot Bun and the monks of Hersfeld, where the saint’s relics were kept. In the dedication Lupus says he yielded to their insistence at a time when he was very busy, and he notes that he writes in the year 836. The life is divided into short chapters, beginning with how the Saxons came to inhabit Britain.
It then tells of Wigbert’s birth and virtues, his call by Boniface to help in preaching, his appointment as abbot of the monks of Fritzlar and his move to Ohrdruf, his return to Fritzlar and stricter life, and his miracles, including a vine of marvellous size grown from a grape. Lupus remarks that he records only some of the miracles for brevity. The work is a source for the Anglo-Saxon mission in Hesse and Thuringia.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 119, Parisiis), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.