ORDERICUS VITAL IS (1075-1143?)

—Chronicler, b. near Shrews bury, was in childhood put into the monastery of St. Evroult, in Normandy, where the rest of his life was pa ed. He is the author of a chronicle, Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy ( c. 1142) in 13 books. Those from the seventh to the thirteenth are invaluable as giving a trustworthy, though not very clear, record of contemporary events in England and Normandy. It was translated into English in 1853-55. ORM, or ORMIN ( fl. 1200). —Was an August in i an canon of Mercia, who wrote the Ormulum in transition English. It is a kind of med iæval Christian Year , containing a metrical portion of the Gospel for each day, followed by a metrical homily, largely borrowed from Ælfric and Bede. Its title is thus accounted for, "This boc i nemmed the Ormulum , forth i that Orm it wrohhte."