The Heroic Age
Issue 6
Spring 2003
Saint Gildas and the
Pestilent Dragon
BY
W. Julian Edens
Wright City, MissouriNotes
1. Williams 32-37.
2. Williams 32-37
3. Williams 32-37
4. Peddie 157.5. Adomnan 32.
6. Gerald of Wales 1978:214.
7. Alcock 22-23.
8. Alcock 54.
9. Williams, op. cit. 7-10.
10. Alcock, op. cit.
11. Williams, op. cit. p. 33, ftnt. 3.
12. Williams 108.
13. Freud 85-6.
14. Williams 38-39.
15. Williamson 102-4.
16. Thorpe 1974: 113.
17. Williams, 84-86.
18. Norwich 252.19 Thorpe, Gerald, p. 50.
20. Palmer 100.
21. Rice 1388-1393.
22. Morris 41,82.
23. Lewis 222.
24. Traupman 111, 354.
25. Owen 112. See also Lewis , ibid. p. 82.
26. Palmer, op. cit. p. 100.
27. Colbert 2.28. Palmer, op. cit. p. 96.
29. Colbert, ibid. p. 3; Palmer, ibid. p. 96.
30. Palmer, op. cit. p. 191.32. O'Meara 1982
33. Owen, op. cit. p. 349.
34. O'Meara 53-56.
35. Davies, op. cit. p. 68; Alcock, op. cit. pp. 22-23.
36. Norwich 233.
37. Ibid. p. 218-19.
38 See both the souces in note 35.
39. Norwich, op. cit. 222-224.
40. Johnson 68-9.41. Davis, op. cit. p. 69.
42. Alcock 1973: 22-3, 54-5.
43. Roberts. 30. See also Alcock, op. cit. p. 54.
44. Labberton, 1901. pp. XV, XXII; see also Kinder and Hilgeman 1974: 80, 116.
45. Alcock, 1973, op. cit. p. 208.
46. Alcock, 1971, op. cit. pp. 81-2.
47. Norwich, op. cit. p. 205-211.
48. Ibid. pp. 235-44.
49. Ibid. pp. 250-4.
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