[87] See his verses on the destruction of Lindisfarne (Acta SS. Ben.)
[88] At Aix-la-Chapelle his bones have been quite recently discovered and identified.—See Die Eröffnung des Karlsschreines, being No. 61 of the Aachener Zeitung, March 2, 1861.
[89] See Ampère, Hist. Lit. avant le xii. Siècle, t. ii.
[90] Matthew of Westminster represents him as taking refuge in England, where, according to the same authority, he was warmly received by King Alfred, and becoming scholasticus at Malmsbury abbey, was there stabbed to death by his scholars. This story was received as authentic, until Mabillon showed it to have been an incorrect version of the history of John of Saxony, who, when abbot of Ethelingay, was killed in a commotion with some of his monks. In spite of the pains taken by this writer to clear up the mistake, the narrative still finds its place in most works which treat of our old English schools, and will probably be as hard to dislodge as other traditions of the same genus. It appears certain, however, that Scotus Erigena returned to France and died there in peace, some time after the death of Charles the Bald.
[91] Many of these towns derive their names from the monks under whom the cells dependent on the abbey were first founded; thus we have Abrazell, Aichezell, Kerzell, and Edelcell, from Abraham, Haicho, Kero, and Edeling, all monks of Fulda.
[92] Nepotem meum et cum eo duo alios nobiles puerulos, quando, si Deus vult, nostro monasterio profuturos, propter Germanicæ linguæ nanciscendam scientiam, Vestræ Sanctitati mittere cupio. (Ep. xci.)
[93] He appears to have had some knowledge of Hebrew, and introduces a quotation from the Hebrew Scriptures in his Treatise De Partu Virginis.
[94] Rabanus, De Instit. Clericorum, lib. iii. c. 24.
[95] Tract. de Corpore Christi, printed in Martène, Vet. Script. t. 9.