Frithegod

His most influential writing was a poem on the life of Wilfrid, an 8th-century bishop and saint, named Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi.

[1] He may have originated near La Chaise-Dieu in Aquitaine, as he seems to have returned there late in his life, but this is just a theory with no solid proof.

[1] Frithegod is generally known for his Latin poem Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a hexameter work based on Stephen of Ripon's prose Life of St Wilfrid.

The poem adds nothing new to historian's knowledge of Wilfrid, and in Lapidge's view its sole purpose was to "demonstrate [Frithegod's] poetic skill which, in the mid-tenth century, was unparalleled elsewhere in England".

[2] The historian Richard Gameson suggested that the copy of the Breviloquium in the Cotton Library as Claudius A.i on folios 5–36 was written by Frithegod himself, as it is in a mid-10th-century continental minuscule scribal hand, rather than the different English style of the Canterbury scriptorium.

It is claimed to have been written by Oda, although Lapidge suggests that it is possible that Frithegod wrote the preface also and ascribed it to his patron.

[1] The two poems are both contained in a manuscript now in the Trinity College Dublin library, under catalogue number 174.

[2] The other, Dum pietas multimoda, is in several manuscripts, including two in Vatican City in the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana under catalogues Borgiano lat.

This poem or hymn is designed for use in the foot-washing religious ceremony that traditionally took place on Maundy Thursday.