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of St. Maximin at Treves, who was sent on a disastrous mission as 

 bishop to the Russians in 961, was appointed abbot of Weissenburg 

 in 966, and became the first archbishop of the newly created see of 

 Magdeburg in 968. The grounds of this identification are (1) that the 

 Continuator must have been a monk of St. Maximin because it was in 

 that monastery that Regino, on his expulsion from Priim in 899, 

 found refuge and wrote the chronicle which was under continuation, 

 and the Continuator shows a special interest in St. Maximin by giving 

 regularly the successions in its abbotship and a disproportionate 

 amount of other details concerning its affairs; (2) that the monk 

 of St. Maximin who actually wrote the Continuation was Adal- 

 bert, because, among the few personal items given by the Con- 

 tinuator, Adalbert's misfortunes in the above mission figure prom- 

 inently and are given in a form which show an intimate knowledge of 

 his affairs and feelings; and (3) the Continuation, which could have 

 been written only by a writer with Adalbert's education and high position, 

 breaks off in the very year of his appointment to the important post at 

 Magdeburg. There is no evidence that Regino ever lived in 

 St. Maximin. The statement that he found refuge in that monast- 

 ery, and wrote his chronicle there, is an assumption based on the discovery 

 of his tomb in St. Maximin in 1581. He could not have found refuge 

 there on coming to Treves in 899, because then the monastery lay in 

 ruins from a Norman raid; and the Vita S. Magnerici not only 

 states that Regino was placed over, and restored, the abbey of St. 

 Martin in Treves, then also in ruins from age and the Norman raid, 

 but the same authority, by giving the disposal made of St. Martin's 

 on Regino's death, implies that he remained over it for life. It is, 

 moreover, not the case that the Continuator gives regularly the suc- 

 cessions in the abbotship of St. Maximin. Except by assistance from 

 other sources, the occupancy of this post can be definitely known from 

 his entries only from 934 to 945 and from 957 to 967, or in all, some 

 21 years out of 60, and these not in continuity. Successions in the 

 abbotship are not mentioned only in the case of St. Maximin, but are 

 given also for 5 other monasteries. Other affairs of St. Maximin 

 are touched upon only in 3 items of, in all, 6 lines out of 20 octavo 

 pages of text; and for the most part, corresponding items are given 

 concerning the monasteries of Lorsch, Weissenburg, Fulda and St. 

 Gall. The mission to Russia, which occupies but 17 lines, was sent 

 with a splendid equipment by the king in answer to an embassy from 

 Helena (Olga) queen or princess of the Russians: its failure, and the 

 bare escape of its leader, Bishop Adalbert, with his life, is, therefore, 

 a public, not a personal, item. In this matter the knowledge of Adal- 

 bert's affairs and feelings shown by the Continuator, is that he was 



