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return. In his later years he retired to his abbey of
St. Martin at Tours. He no longer had the great
sovereign and his nobles as his pupils, but the occupation
of his active manhood was still the solace of
his age. He had a school at Tours to the end of his
life. His own countrymen, not a little to the jealousy
of the Franks, swarmed about him, it was said, like
so many bees, gladly encountering the toil and danger
of long journeying to be under the instruction of one
who had a reputation so illustrious. As a scholar he
was unquestionably the most eminent of his age.
Alcuin died about a.d. 8io. His pupil. Eanbald H.,
did not long survive his old master, dying, it is said,
in 812.