# Metrical obits from Abingdon

# (a) iv Kal. Apr. (29 March) (Æthelstan, abbot of Abingdon 1044-7)
Æþelstanus obiit, [noster] uenerabilis abba,
Quem Deus in celi culmine constituat.

# (b) ii Id. Iun. (12 June)
[. . .] requiescit in hoc poliandro
[. . .] [n]omine clarisono.
[. . .] aderat ceu mistica lampas
[. . .]us moribus egregius.
[Idibus secundis] Iunii carnalia liquit
[. . .]s scandit ad astra poli
[Note that the phrase ceu mistica lampas also occurs in the epitaph for Archbishop Ælfric in the Antwerp MS (see C13.doc)]

# (c) iv Id. Iul. (12 July)
Idibus qui quar[tis] dimisit ponder[a carnis]
Presbiter Ælfr[icus] frater et ipse bon[us].