The Life of Saint Audrey

La Vie Seinte Audree () is a 4625-line hagiography detailing the life, death, and miracles of Saint Audrey, an Anglo-Saxon saint from Ely in Britain.
The only existing copy of "La Vie Seinte Audree" is contained in a manuscript in the British Library, Additional 70513, recorded in the early 14th century. However, scholars have proposed a date of composition for the poem itself in the late 12th or early 13th centuries.
Authorship.
"La Vie Seinte Audree" was recently attributed to the French medieval poet Marie de France. The lines in which the author declares her identity are strikingly similar to what one finds elsewhere in the :
In addition, the source materials for the "Seinte Audree" would have been found in Ely, which is near Sawtry, the location of Marie's Latin sources for her Espurgatoire Seint Patriz. However this attribution is not accepted by all and it is plausible that both 'Seinte Audree' and the [Espurgatoire Seint Patriz] have common author who is not Marie de France.
Sources.
While "La Vie Seinte Audree" is allegedly a translation of a Latin text, the original source material is unknown. Rupert T. Pickens suggests that, in actuality, Marie de France combined three Latin texts to create her "Seinte Audree": the life of Saint Etheldreda, "De secunda translatione", and "Miracula Sancte Etheldrede".