Aelfric

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Ael·fric

(ăl′frĭk) Known as "Grammaticus." 955?-1020?
Anglo-Saxon abbot noted as the author of works in Old English, such as Catholic Homilies and Lives of the Saints, as well as a Latin grammar.
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Ælfric

(ˈælfrɪk)
n
(Biography) called Grammaticus. ?955–?1020, English abbot, writer, and grammarian
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Æl•fric

(ˈæl frɪk)

n.
( “Ælfric Grammaticus”; “Ælfric the Grammarian” ) A.D. c955–c1020, English abbot and writer.
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References in periodicals archive ?
One of Elfric's homilies affords a more or less typical example: certain Jews, he says, asked that Christ sum syllic tacen of heofenum aeteowde.(15)
Adam, Eve, and the 'tacen' in 'Genesis B.' (Old English 'sign')
(2.) The only contemporary literary reference to the price of books copied on commission comes from Elfric Bata, Colloquy 24, in which a customer bargains with a monk over the cost of a missal; see Scott Gwara, ed., AngloSaxon Conversations: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata, intro.
Michael Lapidge. The Anglo-Saxon Library