Ælfgar (Algar), according to 16th-century
antiquarianJohn Leland, was a
saint venerated at a
chapel in the
forest of Selwood, three miles from
Mells (near
Frome),
Somerset.[1] Leland wrote that at the chapel "be buryed the bones of S. Algar, of late tymes superstitiously soute of by the folische commune people".[1] There is no other surviving information on the saint, and it is presumed he was an
Anglo-Saxonhermit.[1]
Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan;
Sharpe, Richard (eds.), Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495–565,
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