ABSTRACT
Nicholas's pallium grant is the last piece of positive information to be gleaned from Ansgar's dossier. The remainder of the Nicholas privilege is Rimbert's work, and must be considered in the context of the Vita Anskarii and the developing conflict between Hamburg-Bremen and Cologne. The Nicholas document continues with a further passage, threatening first to withdraw the privileges granted should Ansgar be unfaithful, and then specifying that Ansgar's successors can only obtain the pallium after making a profession of faith and swearing obedience to Rome. Though a few modern scholars have also called the pallium grants inauthentic, Wolfgang Seegrn and Theodor Schieffer have defended the privileges in the sixth volume of Germania Pontificia and elsewhere. The Liber Diurnus survives in three early medieval manuscripts, which are ed. Hans Foerster, Liber Diurnus Romanorum pontificum. It contains four formulae for pallium donations, commonly numbered according to their occurrence in one codex.
