Lines 264-5

'þæt he butan forligre her on worulde leofode' - Abbo does not provide a direct explanation for the incorruption of Edmund's body and this is an interesting instance of Ælfric's keenness to explain the miraculous to his audience. The primary meaning of forliger is 'adultery' or 'fornication', but it can have the general sense 'immorality'. Ælfric may have derived his interpretation from Abbo's closing exhortation which emphasises that incorruption is accorded to those who achieve the 'especial priviledge of virginity' (singulari uirginitatis priuilegio).