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Some time there was an heathen man
Saints Savinian and Savina, in one MS of the South English Legendary
Title(s): South English Legendary
Subjects: Savinian and Savina, saints
Versification: — two-line — aa



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], ff. 100rb-100vb
First Lines:
SVm tyme þer was an heþen man
Þat men called Sauyn þan…
Last Lines:
…Was I Martred and don to ded
ffor þei smiten of hire hed
Facsimiles:
Doyle, I. A., ed. The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. poet.a.1, with an introduction by A. I. Doyle. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987.
Scase, Wendy, and Nick Kennedy, eds. A facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011.
Editions:
Horstmann, Carl. Sammlung altenglischer Legenden. Heilbronn: Henninger, 1878: 93-7.