Death and Bequests
Dungal died at an unknown date after 827/28, probably at the Monastery of Bobbio. He bequeathed to Bobbio Abbey his valuable library, consisting of some 27 volumes, among which may have been the Antiphonary of Bangor. He wrote to refute some of the religious teachings of Claudius of Turin at the request of the emperor Louis the Pious.
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