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Ælfric (c. 955–c. 1020)
Ælfric. An English ecclesiastic and author, born about 955; died soon after 1020. He is the principal writer of West Saxon prose after Alfred. He was the author of two series of ‘Catholic Homilies’; ‘Lives of the Saints’; a Latin grammar and a little volume of dialogues; a translation of the Pentateuch and many smaller works. He was abbot of Eynsham, near Oxford.