Note 43 — Chapter VII · THE COMING OF AUGUSTINE.
Reading edition
This story is told in similar but by no means identical words in an early life of Pope Gregory, probably written by a monk of Whitby who was a contemporary of Bede’s, and discovered by Paul Ewald: Hist. Aufsätze an G. Waitz gewidmet. It has been suggested that Bede copied from this biography. To me it seems more probable that Bede and the biographer, independently of one another, repeated the common traditio majorum.