When Maildulf was very old, he probably retired from the government of the society he had founded, and Leutherius, bishop of the West Saxons , committed it to Aldhelm. 수도원장으로서 알헬름은 당대 최고의 학자 중 한 명으로 널리 알려졌습니다. Scholars of France and Scotland sought his advice.