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Iwig (alternatively Iwi Iwigius or Ywi of Lindisfarne) was a saint venerated in Wiltshire in the Middle Ages. He was reputedly a Northumbrian monk said to have died and to have been buried in Brittany. Historian David Dumville called him the other principal saint of Wilton in reference to Saint Eadgyth. He was supposedly a follower (alumnus) of Saint Cuthbert.He is listed in two 11th-century litanies.

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