Written before 1002 and based on:
Abbo, Passio sancti Edmundi (written about 985, purporting to be a record of the story as told to Abbo by Dunstan, who had heard it directly from Edmund's sword-bearer): this appears in Arnold's Memorials 1: 3-25; also in Three Lives of English Saints, ed. Michael Winterbottom; Toronto Medieval Latin Texts (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, for the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1972), pp. 65-87.
S.B. Greenfield and D.G. Calder, A New Critical History of Old English Literature (New York and London, 1986)
P. Szarmach (ed.), Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English prose saints' lives and their contexts (SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1996). A collection of specially commissioned essays, particularly on Ælfric.
D. Bethurum, 'The form of Ælfric's Lives of Saints', Studies in Philology 29 (1932) 515-33.
C. Clark, `Ælfric and Abbo', English Studies 49 (1968), 30-36.
P.A.M. Clemoes, 'Ælfric' in Continuations and Beginnings ed. E.G. Stanley (London, 1966).
M.McC. Gatch, `The achievement of Ælfric and his
colleagues in European perspective', in P. Szarmach and B. Huppe. The
Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (Albany, NY, 1978).
M.R. Godden, `Ælfric's Changing Vocabulary', English Studies 61 (1980), 206-23
M.R. Godden, `Ælfric and the vernacular prose tradition', in P. Szarmach and B. Huppe. The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (Albany, NY, 1978).
M.R. Godden, `Ælfric's Saints' Lives and the problem
of miracles', Leeds Studies in English 16 (1985), 83-100.
Eric John, `The world of abbot Ælfric' in Ideal
and Reality, ed. P. Wormald (Oxford, 1983)