Otia Merseiana, Tom 1

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John Sampson
T. Wohlleben, 1899

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Strona 107 - The reason why she was called the Old Woman of Beare was that she had fifty foster-children in Beare. She had seven periods of youth one after another, so that every man who had lived with her came to die of old age, and her grandsons and great-grandsons were tribes and races.
Strona 104 - Angels and demons came to dispute over it, and the soul was granted a vision of Hell — "Thereupon he is let down northward into a great glen. It seemed as long to him as if he saw from the rising of the sun to its setting. He sees a great pit as it were the mouth of a cave between two mountains, which they entered above. For a long time they went along the cave, until they came to a great high black mountain before them at the mouth of Hell, and a large glen in the upper part of that mountain....
Strona 104 - Here he finds a sea of fire with "an unspeakable storm and unspeakable waves upon it," and souls in torment.*8 The northern location of this Hell is significant. The mountain barriers are not unusual: we may contrast the two beautiful mountains in the Vision of Wettin above. A new element in this tradition is the approach along the cave, and possibly such an underground route may carry a...
Strona 46 - ... they came to the Isthmian or the Olympic games. Setting aside, therefore, all visitors of this class, who probably brought gains to the Sanctuary, and for whom accordingly space was provided in the Theatre, Stadium, and Hippodrome, I pass on to consider the suppliants proper. The patient on arriving probably had an interview with the priest or other official, and arranged about his accommodation with one of the Hieromnemones, or other secular person. He performs certain rites, bathes in the sacred...
Strona 111 - Tis long since storms have reached them : The slabs of their tombs are old and decayed. The wave of the great sea talks aloud, Winter has arisen : Fermuid the son of Mugh to-day I do not expect on a visit. I know what they are doing : They row and row across The reeds of the Ford of Alma — Cold is the dwelling where they sleep. Tis ' 0 my God ! ' To me to-day, whatever will come of it. I must take my garment even in the sun : l The time is at hand that shall renew me.
Strona 110 - I had my day with kings Drinking mead and wine : To-day I drink whey-water Among shrivelled old hags. My arms when they are seen Are bony and thin : Once they would fondle, They would be round glorious kings. The maidens rejoice When May-day comes to them : For me sorrow is meeter, For I am wretched, I am an old hag . . . Amen ! woe is me ! Every acorn has to drop. After feasting by shining candles...
Strona 105 - It is the lament of Digdi, the aged nun of Berehaven, who, for a hundred years, had worn the veil which St Cummin blessed upon her head. She contrasts the privations and sufferings of her old age with the pleasures of her youth, when she had been the delight of kings. She draws her imagery from the flood-tide and ebb-tide of the wide Atlantic, on whose shores she had lived and loved and suffered : — ' The wave of the great sea talks aloud, Winter has arisen. What the flood-wave brings to thee,...
Strona 114 - Will not reach the silence of my kitchen: Though many are my company in darkness, A hand has been laid upon them all. O happy the isle of the great sea Which the flood reaches after the ebb! As for me, I do not expect Flood after ebb to come to me. There is scarce a little place to-day That I can recognise: What was on flood Is all on ebb.
Strona 112 - The glorious kings, on whose plains she once rode about in swift chariots with noble steeds, have all departed : " Tis long since storms have reached Their gravestones that are old and decayed." And as for herself : " I had my day with kings, Drinking mead and wine : To-day I drink whey-water, Among shrivelled old hags. " My arms when they are seen Are bony and thin : Once they would fondle, They would be round glorious kings. " The maidens rejoice When May-day comes to them.
Strona 93 - ... auctoritate Dei Patris omnipotentis et Filii et Spiritus Sancti illos qui ejus latores in itinere sancti Jacobi forte inquietaverint, vel qui ab ejusdem apostoli basilica, postquam ibi oblatus fuerit, injuste illum abstulerint vel fraudaverint (9).

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