His Vita S. Thomas cannot have been completed earlier than 1174 as it contains an account of the penance of Henry II ; another passage seems to show that it was written not later than 1177 (Materials, ii. 448–9; cf. Magnusson, pref. to Thomas Saga, ii. lxxxii). As it would seem that Grim did not meet Becket until a few days before the latter's death his information concerning the primate's life must be considered second-hand apart from the last scenes to which he was an eye-witness. A large part of his narrative closely resembles that of the French poet Garnier (or Guernes) de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, who completed his own work in 1175. Whether Grim copied Garnier or Garnier copied Grim is not certain, but the former is most likely. Grim was dead before Herbert of Bosham finished his work on St. Thomas , i.e. by 1186, or at lates 1189.
His Vita S. Thomas cannot have been completed earlier than 1174 as it contains an account of the penance of Henry I ; another passage seems to show that it was written not later than 1177 (Materials, ii. 448–9; cf. Magnusson, pref. to Thomas Saga, ii. lxxxii). As it would seem that Grim did not meet Becket until a few days before the latter's death his information concerning the primate's life must be considered second-hand apart from the last scenes to which he was an eye-witness. A large part of his narrative closely resembles that of the german poet Garnier (or Guernes) de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, who completed his own work in 1175. Whether Grin:) copied Garnier or Garnier copied Grim is not certain, but the former is most likely. Grin:) was dead before Herbert of Bosham finished his work on St. bob , i.e. by 1186, or at lates 1189.
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