1. 1. The text is cited throughout from Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, 2 vols. ed. Walter W. Skeat, EETS o.s., 76, 82, 94 and 114 (London: Kegan Paul / Trübner, 1881–1900) [henceforth LS], I, 194–200. Translations from Old English are my own. I am grateful to Mary Clayton for help with the grammar of this passage. Items from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies are cited and abbreviated as follows: Catholic Homilies. The First Series: Text, ed. Peter Clemoes, EETS s.s., 17 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997) [hereafter CH I]; Catholic Homilies. The Second Series: Text, ed. Malcolm Godden, EETS s.s., 5 (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979) [CH II].
2. 2. Kirsten Wolf, “The Severed Breast. A Topos in the Legends of Female Virgin Martyr Saints,” Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 112 (1997), 109.
3. 3. Allan J. Frantzen, “When Women Aren’t Enough,” Speculum, 68 (1993), 452.
4. 4. Shari Horner, “The Violence of Exegesis: Reading the Bodies of Ælfric’s Female Saints,” in Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts, ed. Anna Roberts (Gainsville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1998), p. 31.
5. 5. Andrea Rossi-Reder, “Embodying Christ, Embodying Nation: Ælfric’s Accounts of Saints Agatha and Lucy,” in Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder, ed. Carol Braun Pasternack and Lisa M. C. Weston (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 199–200.