Old English Lives of Saints, Volume IIIOld English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops for a late Anglo Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England was under increasingly severe Viking attack, the examples of these saints modeled courageous faith, self sacrifice, and individual and collective