“To Peter, Archbishop of Milan.
“O that I had the wings of an eagle, that I might fly across the heights of the Alps swifter than the winds.”
In his Life of Willibrord,[246] cap. xxxii, he says:—
“The Alps of St. Maurice are exalted more felicitously by the blood of the Theban saints than by the height of their snows.”
Ep. 151.
To Arno.
“To my father, of most sweet love, the eagle prelate, a swan from across the sea sends wishes for perpetual health with the pen-feathers of holy affection.”
Ep. 134.
To Arno.
“To the eagle, of all the birds of the Alpine heights most dear, Albinus sends greeting.”