Episcopi, Vita Wilfridi, auctore Stephano, Eddio, cap. XXXIX (Rolls Series, Historians of the Church of York, ed. Jas. Raine, 1879, I, 55): ‘. . . coenobium quod Colodaesburg dicitur . . . cui praesidebat sanctissima materfamilias nomine Æbbae, soror Oswini regis sapientissima’.Google Scholar

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Bede, , Hist. Eccles. cap. XXIII (Plummer, 1896, I, 262) : ‘ His temporibus monasterium virginum quod Coludi urbem cognominant, cuius et supra meminimus, per culpam incuriae flammis absumtum est ‘. (There follows the tale of Adamnan the Scot who was leading a life of prayer and continence there, consisting of eating and drinking only on Thursdays and Sundays and often praying all night. Bede then recounts the story of his sin and repentance, and of how he prophesied the destruction of Coludes burh as a divine judgment for its corruptions).Google Scholar

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