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He was also fond of dis- jdaying his knowledge of Greek by interlarding his Latin with phrases evidently reproduced from Greek idioms. This trait of pedantry is worth noting; it shows how zealously Greek was studied at that early day in England, and it will moreover prepare us for recognizing the phe- nomenon that some of the legendary poems of the 8th, 9th, or 10th centuries, in the vernacular of England, see § 25, were based upon primitive Greek versions and not upon secondary Latin ones. Bes...ides the great schools already mentioned, there was one scarcely less noted, at York. Among the teachers here w^as Bede'syoungfriend Ecgberht. And in this school was trained the celebrated AJouin, who afterwards removed BONIFACE. 43 to France and became the bosom friend and adviser of Charlemagne, and his assistant in the great plan of re- forming education throughout Europe. Another famous Englishman was Winfrid, better known by his Latin name of St. Boniface. After teaching in several schools in his native country, he entered upon his missionary labors in Bavaria, Thuringia, Ilesse, Saxony, and Fries- land.
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