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A.3.4 14 ased to the blessed. / That is a joyful plain, green forests,
A.3.4 20 cold, nor warm weather, / nor a winter shower, can cause any
A.3.4 26 there does there ever incline a trace of roughness, / but that
A.3.4 39 od is hung with crops; / never a leaf withers under the sky, /
A.3.4 41 ver at all harm them, / before a change comes on the world. / J
A.3.4 43 long ago the power of water, / a sea-flood covered the whole w
A.3.4 80 marred in appearance. / There a holy perfume remains / through
A.3.4 85 nt work brings it to an end. / A bird wondrous fair, strong in
A.3.4 113 ith soaring heart he rises to a high tree, / from where he can
A.3.4 152 of the wood-grove / has passed a thousand years of this life.
A.3.4 156 / the blooming land, and seeks a broad kingdom of earth, / wher
A.3.4 157 f earth, / where no men dwell, a land and homeland. / There, pr
A.3.4 160 lted among his kind, / and for a while inhabits the wasteland
A.3.4 169 he goes to live in shadow / in a wooded grove, a desolate plac
A.3.4 172 ere he inhabits and keeps to / a lofty tree in the forest, / se
A.3.4 174 roots under heaven’s roof, / [a tree] that men call ‘phoeni
A.3.4 190 anches, / make ready the nest. A great need is upon him / throug
A.3.4 191 reat need is upon him / through a surge of awareness that he ma
A.3.4 193 t old age into life, / take on a young spirit. Then far and ne
A.3.4 202 , where the wild bird / builds a house in the wasteland / above
A.3.4 223 e space / there returns to him a soul renewed, / after the ashe
A.3.4 225 lundering flame, congealed to a ball. / Then that brightest of
A.3.4 231 shes, / from which there grows a worm wondrous fair, / as thoug
A.3.4 235 estling, / the fair makings of a bird; / then further yet it bu
A.3.4 246 winter at reaping-time, / lest a shower of rain should damage
A.3.4 252 corn, / which is first sown as a pure seed, / and then the ray
A.3.4 261 n the earth, unless he tastes a portion / of the honey-dew that
A.3.4 265 ain / his ancient settlements, a land of his own. / Then the bi
A.3.4 300 he beak gleams, like glass or a gem, / its jaws brilliant, ins
A.3.4 302 eye / is piercing and most like a stone in appearance, / a lovel
A.3.4 303 like a stone in appearance, / a lovely gem, when by the skill
A.3.4 304 skill of smiths / it is set in a golden vessel. / Around the th
A.3.4 305 sel. / Around the throat, like a ring of sunlight, / the bright
A.3.4 312 eerless / in colour, most like a peacock, / delightfully grown,
A.3.4 330 ictories established for him / a more marvelous nature, / faire
A.3.4 339 surround the holy creature in a ring / in flight in the air; t
A.3.4 363 / to dwell on the plain until a thousand years / have passed.
A.3.4 387 e world [or ‘glory’?] / as a reward for their deeds. / The
A.3.4 388 nature of this bird points to a great similarity / with those
A.3.4 390 ey maintain under the heavens a shining joy / with the support
A.3.4 392 times / lay up for themselves a lofty prosperity in the homel
A.3.4 406 ikewise for their offspring, / a painful feast for their suns
A.3.4 408 sin; / they had God’s wrath, a bitter painful sorrow, / and e
A.3.4 415 tors in ancient days / through a wicked heart, so that they fa
A.3.4 416 from there / sought an abode, a more sorrowful dwelling-place
A.3.4 417 ace / in this valley of death. A better life / was hidden in da
A.3.4 431 the noblest / twigs and plants a new dwelling-place, / a nest i
A.3.4 432 plants a new dwelling-place, / a nest in the grove; there is a
A.3.4 433 e might be allowed to receive a spirit young again, / through
A.3.4 440 t / of glory behind them, took a long journey / into the hands
A.3.4 452 e champion of the lord builds a nest for himself / against mal
A.3.4 464 most good deeds; the lord is a shield to him / in every journ
A.3.4 466 ney, the ruler of victories, / a willing benefactor of hosts.
A.3.4 469 ere secure in roots he builds a nest against malice. / So now
A.3.4 473 ill repay them blessedly with a reward. / From those herbs a d
A.3.4 474 h a reward. / From those herbs a dwelling shall be established
A.3.4 475 shed / in the city of glory as a recompense for their deeds, /
A.3.4 483 arn with valour eternal joy, / a home in the heavens, until th
A.3.4 492 e lord of hosts, / will strike a synod, judge after what is du
A.3.4 521 gh into the heavens; for many a terrible / hot heat will be ki
A.3.4 528 wrapped in their works after a time of exile, / their own dee
A.3.4 540 hteous souls, call out, raise a song, / the pure and elect, pr
A.3.4 547 n expect / that I am compiling a poem in lying words, / writing
A.3.4 553 y heart / that I should choose a deathbed in my nest, / a man c
A.3.4 554 hoose a deathbed in my nest, / a man corpse-weary, depart sadl
A.3.4 555 depart sadly from there, / on a long journey, covered in clay
A.3.4 565 mouldy in its earth-hall, / as a pleasure for worms, just so t
A.3.4 568 ail in my heart, since I have a secure / and lasting joy in the
A.3.4 596 ut they live there always, in a brilliant troop, / just like t
A.3.4 605 s gleam, / wrapped with power. A prince’s diadem / finely ado
A.3.4 611 those dwellings there is not a trace of sorrow; / mishap nor
A.3.4 637 without end. There never was a beginning, / a start of bounty
A.3.4 638 There never was a beginning, / a start of bounty. Though he wa
A.3.4 639 / here on earth in the form of a child / in middle-earth, yet t
A.3.4 644 th on the tree of the cross, / a terrible punishment, on the t
A.3.4 658 of joys, where they bring as a gift to the lord / words and d
A.3.4 659 to the lord / words and deeds, a lovely perfume, / to the creat
A.4.2 8 hen, I heard, Holofernes / had a drinking-party arranged and a
A.4.2 22 old-friend of the men, was in a mood for pouring, / laughed an
A.4.2 39 l-coated warriors, marched in a trice / to the guest-quarters,
A.4.2 46 uring the feasting. There was a net all of gold / to keep out
A.4.2 51 an who came therein, / and not a human being could look at him
A.4.2 54 ty to come nearer to him / for a private communication. Then t
A.4.2 62 n in extravagant spirits with a band of men / to visit his bed
A.4.2 64 ecipitously, / in the space of a single night. That fierce-hea
A.4.2 78 aid, / with hair tied up, took a sharp sword, / hardened in sho
A.4.2 101 e baleful, horrid man in such a way / that she could most easi
A.4.2 105 , destructive adversary / with a decorated sword, so that she
A.4.2 106 h his neck, so that he lay in a stupor, / drunk and severely w
A.4.2 113 ; the spirit moved off / under a steep cliff and was sunk ther
A.4.2 120 shall remain there / ever and a day, time without end, / in th
A.4.2 144 n the stronghold, as Judith, / a clever young woman, had enjoi
A.4.2 146 eople when she had departed, / a courageous lady. Their belove
A.4.2 148 woman / straightway called for a certain man / to come from the
A.4.2 212 thered, horn-beaked, / he sang a war-song. The men, war-worker
A.4.2 225 lowed loud, cast javelins / in a fierce throng. The native her
A.4.2 258 rsh. There was not, however, / a single man who dared waken th
A.4.2 289 ies our protector / slashed by a sword, beheaded.” Full of g
A.4.2 291 at heart / to fly in retreat. A mighty host / attacked them fr
A.4.2 297 ds. Those who survived fled, / a shield-troop of the despised.
A.4.2 298 e despised. Behind them came / a company of Hebrews blessed by
A.4.2 302 resolute heroes briskly laid / a war-path through the host of
A.4.2 334 , / that brave young woman. As a reward / for that selfsame wom
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus praefatio 1 s / / # / Father, accept serenely a poet’s prayers, as he sings
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 2 nt among the Angli, / it was a pleasure to give you these ru
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 7 , learned father, the gift of a beloved friend, / and sing t
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 12 he monks, distinguished / by a splendid gift, are here climb
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 17 esire to give these things as a lying to rest to your labour,
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 19 d. / I urge you to tolerate in a measured manner whatever is d
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 2 3 of the English, / and produced a son, who was famous in name /
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 2 14 s time on earth remained / for a brief period, and he could no
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 2 15 re this man destroyed many by a pitiable death, / but drove ot
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 3 1 Accordingly, one of these was a shepherd venerable in name, /
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 3 9 s most high mind, / and to him a bright-white heart was given
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 7 s he alone worthy to long for a heavenly shield, / but many ch
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 9 ect themselves to the Lord in a monastery. / Eanmund having at
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 14 r had collected servants into a blessed cell, / he edified ver
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 18 sked from the divinity, / that a holy angel, coming with joy f
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 20 / with no sad heart tears with a greedy tooth / those who submi
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 27 oming to take away the sin of a guilty world, / made the world
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 5 / and the ocean waves encircle a sacred land, / and reveal a re
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 6 le a sacred land, / and reveal a ready road, when they lay the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 15 ook what was worth telling in a memorable account, / he ponder
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 17 dded to his own establishment a suitable teacher. / He was a p
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 18 t a suitable teacher. / He was a priest who established monast
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 2 in Ireland, holy in his ways, a bishop, / Ecgberht, and to him
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 3 d to him he took care to send a servant, / asking him to instr
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 5 sanctify for him an altar as a holy table, / and to be mindfu
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 7 places were worthy, / in which a shrine, sacred to the Thunder
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 9 s, and also enriched him with a sacred gift. / A table, consec
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 10 ched him with a sacred gift. / A table, consecrated to God in
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 14 , and likewise your life with a chaste heart, / so that, when
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 18 ch the Lord granted to you by a great gift. / And yet, as the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 20 s eye was able to indicate, / a hill that is not great, with
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 25 at place establish afterwards a beautiful church for God, / wh
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 31 man finished off the roof of a very beautiful temple, / sprea
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 40 these deeds to his teacher, / a messenger came to convey the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 54 together under arms, / and as a raging group set up many ambu
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 7 10 words and every thought. / So a certain one of them, desiring
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 2 ur , / encouraged many to lead a perfect life. / One of them wa
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 3 ife. / One of them was Ultan , a man called by a famous name.
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 4 led by a famous name. / He was a blessed priest of the Irish r
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 8 is skill; / it is no wonder if a worshipper of the Lord could
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 24 to put them in the inside of a fitted tomb, / which stood on
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 39 quid from the remains. / Then, a certain brother, after he lay
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 46 tic words, / so that by making a sign with it I can avoid the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 57 ed thanks to God for so great a gift. / And the company of bro
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 58 any of brothers gathered into a single group / and carried the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 63 hidden in the holy bowels / of a casket, but his spirit rejoic
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 9 2 r called Frithugils by name, / a priest, and a minister pure i
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 1 me recall with wondrous tales a brother, who could tame / and
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 3 ways his cunning hammer / beat a path on the iron placed under
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 28 supper-table by beating out a path on vessels. / When the ho
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 33 of sickness racked his body, / a choir came from heaven shinin
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 38 entered the citadels above. / A monk, Æthwine, when he saw t
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 1 aste companies. / / # / There was a certain brother under the rul
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 3 name of Merhtheof. / Once, at a certain time, when sickness w
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 33 ng for the stairs, / it was on a mountain top and revealed the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 46 , / besmirching your limbs with a second marriage? / Both of us
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 71 he brother treating them made a healing poultice / for his wou
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 12 6 of their venerable father / in a fitting tomb under the roof o
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 13 2 He was an outstanding priest, a diligent lover of [monastic]
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 13 7 for certain rewards, grew / in a marvellous manner: reverence
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 13 21 those chosen for God snatched a lofty victory, / and the dark
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 13 27 e and in all he said; / he was a splendid standard-bearer, enc
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 1 . / / # / The fourth shepherd was a priest of a very famous name,
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 3 ents, / and in zealously built a church worthy of God. / This i
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 7 inted panels, / in the midst of a portico, and the holy men cro
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 40 iest, having been blessed for a long time / was worthy to repea
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 15 15 emained of the present life. / A brother, seeing these things,
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 15 22 s donation, / could not cause a loss in number to the flocks.
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 15 27 id antiphon. / And the lector, a man very learned in books, sa
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 1 oming song. / / # / At that time, a famous lector called Hyglac b
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 3 hom I previously touched upon a few things in my account, / wh
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 5 song, / unlearned as I am and a lowly writer in all respects.
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 6 res to know these things with a wise mind, / let him dash thir
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 12 sacred altar in his fingers, / a generous blessing came upon t
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 16 eyes of the mind. / Moreover, a certain confessor among the E
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 1 . / / # / When that man was dead, a priest called Wulfsig by name
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 4 be worthy to take up so great a burden. / But at last he rejoi
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 7 rejoicing monastery. / He was a man humble in word and modest
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 9 yself to him, when already as a boy I first entered / and freq
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 12 lm of one house, / until, after a period of six years had alrea
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 17 west part of the sky, as with a chaste heart / he ran through
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 28 let any day pass except with a splendid offering, / with whic
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 36 lished such things / in, alas, a few years, he abandoned the b
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 19 1 addened by his lot above. / / # / A certain gentle brother served
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 19 4 The father believed him to be a man of faith, and embraced hi
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 19 6 he brothers’ robes. / He was a man given to God and faithful
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 19 8 arged the responsibilities of a worldly office, / he did not c
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 19 13 the church with his knees as a suppliant. / Night and day lik
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 19 16 n he had done such things for a long time, / the brother ended
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 20 9 cattered the splendid seed of a celestial gift in the hearts
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 3 be allowed to recall again in a few verses, / blessed as you a
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 11 wondrous singing, there came a vast host, / which made music f
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 13 illed the place of ashes with a very wondrous light. / The spi
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 24 sounded out these words / for a long time by the doors under
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 3 y limbs in rest after hymns, / a stealthy dream approached and
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 4 stole into my eyes. / Behold, a bright-white guide suddenly s
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 6 hining clothes, / radiant with a beautiful face, / and of my ow
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 8 on unknown paths. / There was a broad field, which gave off s
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 13 y, since I am unaware of such a crop. / And when in haste we b
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 15 / suddenly we caught sight of a city shining exceedingly brig
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 19 l follower. / The precincts of a shrine lay were revealed, / an
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 20 fully crafted in the shape of a cross. / But the interior of t
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 29 ning facades, / were gazing on a hall that was very marvellous
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 31 rch / bore the golden gifts on a wondrous altar. / A venerable
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 32 n gifts on a wondrous altar. / A venerable cross rose up shini
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 40 pray, and take care to save / a fearful man in the face of hi
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 42 o the right, where there was / a throne, properly shining with
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 43 old-painted panels, / on which a certain venerable old man had
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 46 had on its top the emblem of a lofty cross. / This glittered
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 48 lendid gems out of the east. / A shining fine linen vestment c
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 49 vestment covered / the top of a tomb, which contained the con
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 58 , I was allowed to recognise / a face I once recognized from I
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 60 my early years. / He had been a priest, who with head bent in
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 63 ind. / Behind him there sat on a stool that shone / with bright
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 69 hese there hung close at hand a censer crafted from ruddy gol
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 72 nderer. / In all the porticoes a wax candle was burning, / hono
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 76 tering with gold there blazed a wondrous grace, / a consecrate
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 77 ere blazed a wondrous grace, / a consecrated altar, which offe
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 85 nied by my former teacher, / to a height in the church, looking
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 88 rned condition, being made of a precious source / they could i
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 90 s of the world. / Among these, a table replenished with variou
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 91 all kinds offered the gift of a meal. / He took from it a drin
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 92 t of a meal. / He took from it a drinking-vessel made from a s
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 94 h pious prayers, as he served a drink. / Then, when I had rece
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 95 , when I had received wine of a wonderful flavour, / I rendere
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 23 2 lf composed these songs / from a simple heart, seeking with bo
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 23 9 nd mind. / May almighty God be a gentle saviour for blessed me
AETHILVVALD.Aldhelm.Octo 6 e at the beginning of my poem / a man shining in heaven through
AETHILVVALD.Aldhelm.Octo 24 / with the burning javelin of a blazing sphere; / as the hard
AETHILVVALD.Aldhelm.Octo 25 rd and very delicate seeds in a clod swell, / each delicate sa
AETHILVVALD.Aldhelm.Octo 26 delicate sapling burgeons in a moist spot; / they take up the
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 6 nly in appearance and aspect, a veteran in deed and speech. /
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 10 embarked on it I shall speak a bit with fearful delight. / Y
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 12 her of noble stock, / born from a well-born mother, and endowed
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 14 e and nimble in appearance. / A shock of shining hair surroun
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 19 hite, / radiating greatly like a rose with ruddy flowers; / you
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 20 ing; spoken words sprung from a gracious mouth / are not enough
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 22 er your innumerable gifts. / A crown of wordy wisdom attests
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 26 should cry out and speak with a hundred tongues / growling powe
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 3 as, once, the prominent poet, a native of the city of Rome / o
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 12 Olympus, / whose crested heads a wreathed crown of virtues enc
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 14 and girds the shoulders with a triple-layered breastplate. /
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 16 it attacks viciously, / as when a shower sweeps in, are forced
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 22 beaten the brutal enemy with a heavenly trophy of war, / you w
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 30 , with the shuddering maws of a wild snout, / wandering through
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 37 n the Lord (and two indeed in a worldly way) / with the cohesiv
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 53 spiritual gifts, / with which a garden bed of souls, full of
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 57 hat the prophets, apostles of a revelation skilled in speech,
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 60 ing forth with great haste in a marvelous gift, / and which el
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 62 ced right from the first from a beautiful shoot / certain offsp
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 63 ul shoot / certain offspring of a clever worm which feeds on le
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 65 ogeny appears it springs from a womb of eggs, / nor did that wo
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 74 read, with great grindings / of a spindle flying, which turns a
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 78 are ivory-coloured lilies in a line; / just so, just so do the
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 86 o pray. / They also still add a certain most beautiful little
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 4 grants of mind, give words to a feeble poet, / moistening a si
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 5 to a feeble poet, / moistening a simple heart with the waters
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 17 raise of my homeland / and for a short time to proclaim the an
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 19 f York in appreciative verse! / A Roman hand first founded her,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 24 world, / so that she would be a common marketplace by land an
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 25 nd and sea, / and would become a secure jurisdiction for its l
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 26 n ornament of the empire, and a terror for enemy arms; / that
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 27 nemy arms; / that she would be a haven for ships coming on the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 33 rgeous with hills and woods, / a beautiful, healthy habitation
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 36 benefit, seeking riches from a rich land, / a place to settle
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor P 37 ing riches from a rich land, / a place to settle for themselve
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 55 which to achieve / to striking a pact of agreed-on peace. / But
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 61 ould I now sing more? Behold: a hastening army, / came, carrie
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 70 an allied race / and drove out a sluggish people from its ance
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 73 count of their sins / and that a more fortunate people should
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 76 e Thunderer granted, / and now a new power arose through repea
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 79 . At that time holy Gregory, / a man revered by the whole worl
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 81 me as supreme bishop, / and as a devoted cultivator of Christ
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 84 the fields of Latium, / but as a fine and pious cultivator of
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 90 ranted. / Meanwhile Edwin, from a line of ancient kings, / born
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 91 ent kings, / born in York, and a future lord over all, / was dr
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 92 ll, / was driven into exile as a boy and fled hostile realms. /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 93 hostile realms. / There, while a heathen, he himself saw a vis
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 94 sleep-filled night. While at a certain time he was alone, / w
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 95 tain time he was alone, / with a heart burdened with cares, he
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 97 before the young man’s eyes a man, / unfamiliar in dress and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 103 ing it, / and in addition sets a limit on your broad dominium
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 105 g always and forever! / Placing a right hand on [Edwin’s] hea
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 106 pledge, said: / ‘Let this be a sign of our bond.’ / Once thi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 131 peoples to keep. / [Edwin] took a faithful wife from the southe
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 134 he virtues of the holy faith. / A priest was given to her, a ke
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 135 cent life, / Paulinus by name, a most renowned citizen of the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 138 ords and prudent in thought, / a cultivator of justice, a true
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 139 tice, a true lover of piety, / a catholic teacher, bestowing h
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 145 shadows from human hearts. / On a certain day, approaching the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 147 nce saw / in the dim night, as a young man driven from the bor
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 153 thing I have promised / and as a believer I shall venerate God
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 157 rejoicing, answered him with a ready word: / ‘First let the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 170 defile the lofty shrine with a spear! / Once you were a teache
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 171 e with a spear! / Once you were a teacher of sins: now be one o
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 172 these words, and replied with a few words of his own: / ‘Thus
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 176 nal God, and whether there is a life to come, / and torments f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 178 r these words, he snatched up a spear with a threatening righ
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 179 against tradition, he mounted a stallion / whose mane flew rou
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 182 impatient of delay, it chafed a golden bit. / Just like the fea
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 185 arts spinning, / so did he aim a spear at the top of the templ
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 186 blessed boldness in so great a deed! / He defiled before the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 189 ed in the font, / he fulfilled a virtuous deed with faithful p
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 192 en the structure raised up as a wicked temple / destroyed and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 221 s, / stands spectacularly with a lofty beauty, splendid. / In th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 228 s of his companions. / Oh, what a blind thing it is to have too
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 233 ndid Britain has not had such a ruler since. / However, the Alm
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 238 th, / he hastened to assembled a small army and advanced on th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 245 our hearts; / with prayers and a pious heart ask for God’s h
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 249 / and which will now bring us a fine triumph over the foe. / Th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 264 f his own men, / as he yielded a brilliant victory to that mag
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 266 ly Oswald entered his realm, / a hero well-deserving of his an
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 267 ing of his ancient ancestors: / a man mighty in virtue, a guard
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 286 s, in honour of the Lord. / As a result he shone with the mark
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 289 nd now it is good to touch on a few of them in a lyric measur
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 291 dashing pen of song. / For at a certain time the most holy bi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 294 wed his advice in every deed. / A very great crowd of beggars w
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 297 / pious [Oswald] directed that a silver dish of very great wei
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 302 ing was killed, / they hung on a stake his right hand, cut fro
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 303 body by a pagan sword, / upon a stake. King Oswiu, his brothe
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 306 ld of Bamburgh / placing it in a casket of silver beneath the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 308 o this day its nails grow, as a sign that it would be incorru
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 313 the spot where fell killed by a pagan people, / fighting for
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 314 r his homeland. For by chance a certain traveller / passed clo
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 317 gnash its teeth and foam with a bloody mouth, and, / falling d
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 323 / about the spot, and, placing a marker on it he rode off, / co
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 324 where he was heading. Behold, a girl was lying there, / languis
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 325 s lying there, / languishing in a chilly sickness of paralysis,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 329 be cured. The girl was put on a wagon / and was brought, as th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 332 . She slept / in that place for a bit and, when she woke, she r
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 334 r hair, covered her head with a veil / and then swiftly follow
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 337 ioned battle, / behold, he saw a particular plot of land that
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 339 ield. / He pondered to himself: ‘A rather saintly man fell in th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 341 .’ / He bound up some dust in a piece of cloth and took it wi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 342 im. / Growing weary, he came to a certain village at evening,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 344 tered he was also received as a guest, / and he hung the cloth
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 345 ng the cloth with the dust on a high beam. / It happened that a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 346 a high beam. / It happened that a voracious fire suddenly snatc
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 355 red blood of, / which had been a cause of salvation for many.
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 364 e those bones of the holy man a column of ethereal light / shin
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 366 heaven the whole night / where a rather large curtain was cove
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 375 through the merit of so great a patron / many gifts of healing
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 380 ay devoutly believe the rest. / A certain boy lay ill with feve
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 390 remain through the centuries a beautiful manifestation of a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 396 e to those afflicted. / Indeed, a certain abbess came to see th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 400 had passed, there came to her a guest, / a man who was quite o
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 401 , there came to her a guest, / a man who was quite often accus
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 402 stomed to being tormented / by a demon at night time. Behold:
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 410 dust to be fetched. / And when a virgin came carrying it and e
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 411 / of the building, the man in a rage was suddenly silent and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 425 oming of day.’ / He was given a portion of that holy dust to
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 437 strength of health. / I, being a rustic, cannot run through in
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 443 e this single sign. / There was a certain brother who had suffe
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 460 of many: for at the time when a terrible plague / was ravaging
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 462 eoples who dwelt by the sea, / a scholar of the Irish race, sh
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 468 eadful depths of hell, and in a groaning voice / he said to a f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 469 n a groaning voice / he said to a fellow-monk: Brother, the mom
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 482 wald. / Since you too were born a fellow member of the Saxon ra
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 485 his trusting ear: / ‘I have a fragment of holy wood found f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 487 maintaining belief, you keep a heart firm in faith, / divine
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 488 through the merit of so great a patron, / will perhaps grant y
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 489 tron, / will perhaps grant you a long span in this life, / and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 495 ath. / So from then on he lived a healthy life for a long time,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 512 his own relatives, / who with a cruel hand tore at the innard
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 517 om his earliest years, to him a hateful enemy / was King Penda,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 519 the killer of his brother and a savage ravager of the realm. /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 525 ut folk to the sword. / Just as a torrent, swollen with storms
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 534 eadily advanced / against such a great army with an unflinchin
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 536 with tears, and prayers, and a constant heart. / When this was
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 550 fled, compelled / by so great a disaster, seeing the carnage
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 556 in him. / This, this was indeed a conflict that proved quite b
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 557 he king freed his people from a cruel enemy / and placed the M
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 561 d / by the magnificent gift of a celestial grant: / one became
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 562 homeland’s heir, the other a citizen of Olympus. / Both peop
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 592 d to man and beast alike. / And a disastrous pile of the dying
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 595 h the dashing waves, / so that a swift death might deliver the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 598 ceived the water of baptism, / a breeze with a calm shower set
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 600 the mountains were decked in a flowering garment. / A fruitful
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 601 ecked in a flowering garment. / A fruitful year was provided to
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 615 ld, he was suddenly struck by a harsh ailment, / and for many
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 628 the last moment of life into a new beginning. / For he mercifu
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 629 nning. / For he mercifully sent a messenger from the stars / who
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 631 sively snow-white garb, / with a fiery face, and predicted the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 640 sit you, for you will die / at a peaceful time on the shores o
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 646 edly in peace. / There was also a holy man shining at that time
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 650 from the start of his time as a famous monk, / and then became
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 651 came an apostolic teacher and a holy priest, / and filling unc
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 657 r with serene light. / There is a place in the ocean called by
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 663 ready mind. / He lived there as a holy hermit for no little tim
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 688 miracles in heroic verse: / how a cure followed on angelic advi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 689 lowed on angelic advice / when a burning swelling grew in his
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 690 il body; / or how, when himself a boy, he called back by his pr
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 697 released from illness and sin a monk who was observing; / how,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 700 how he predicted that he and a companion / would eat a fish f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 701 he and a companion / would eat a fish fetched by an eagle, and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 704 men could not manage; / or how a married woman possessed by a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 707 ed demons from Farne, / making a place for himself nearby to s
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 710 her’s essence; / how he sowed a crop for himself in the field
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 711 rove the birds away with only a word; / how the sea as well as
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 713 very many future things with a truthful mouth / about himself
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 715 n,; / how he restored to health a gesith’s wife, / on whom he
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 717 plague. / In this way, he cured a certain girl he anointed hims
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 720 ssed and brought by him / cured a certain sick man when mixed w
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 721 ed with water; / or how when as a traveller he happened to find
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 723 or how that holy father, when a sickness was ravaging Britain
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 724 ging Britain, / he predicted to a mother safety for her son and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 726 ing up to heaven / the soul of a shepherd who had fallen from
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 731 bes; / how someone possessed by a demon was cured by the earth
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 733 e father’s holy limbs; / how a certain man breathing out sic
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 735 red of that illness; / and how a man with an eye-ailment touch
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 737 kness of his sight went away. / A certain man with a limp body
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 753 erce peoples in war, / he took a wife called by the name of Æ
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 756 though she would be joined to a proud marriage-bed, / and like
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 771 ly much more amazing to say, / a wound which a doctor, compell
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 773 d, and there was visible just a very delicate scar / covering
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 779 ace, / became known to many as a source of longed-for healing,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 780 healing, / and itself offered a cure for diseased eyes. / The a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 781 / The aforementioned Bede made a hymn in splendid verse / in pr
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 786 into the forest.’ / Then too a memorable event happened to h
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 790 killed in battle, / and in it a certain noble warrior [thegn]
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 792 in cruel slaughter. / and spent a day lifeless, as well as the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 797 nd led back by winding way to a certain nobleman [gesith]. / Th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 800 m famous stock, / saying: I am a poor man, and a peasant, / and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 813 ngs, / and said: ‘But I have a brother with a devout heart,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 828 p the gifts of the mass / with a pious heart. When his master
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 830 eed, and legally ransomed for a fee, he returned / to seek his
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 842 and he fell, conquered amidst a wretched slaughter of his fol
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 845 earliest years / of his life, a scholar with mighty eloquence
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 846 iercing in intellect: equally a king and likewise a teacher. /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 849 ime then, / an honourable man, a monk, a bishop, a restrained
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 855 zes from that sea for Christ. / A good and guileless man, rich
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 864 ng duties: / which would now be a reading, but now a sacred pra
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 867 ief sleep for all and food in a flash, / nor should anyone cla
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 876 the same time there occurred a memorable vision / that I beli
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 880 s destroyed by sins, / behold, a certain long-dead man rose up
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 882 that were worth remembering, / a few of which I shall add to m
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 883 d to my poem here. / For he was a married man of the common peo
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 885 . / Later he was afflicted with a terrible disease of the flesh
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 898 ead. / But now I have to follow a far different life / and I mus
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 901 he followed monastic law with a devout heart, / and there he s
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 902 bdued his flesh with so great a burden / that from his life ev
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 908 mer sun, / to where we came to a valley that was both wide and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 909 ngth of which there stretched a boundless abyss, / one side bu
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 928 suddenly rose up / as if from a pit, and then sank back again
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 932 climbed high and in turn, / in a second movement, fell back ag
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 937 s I looked at this for rather a long time, and terror surroun
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 941 ke the cackle of the crowd at a captured enemy, / and as they
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 953 p / might come to save me from a cruel enemy. / Then, behind me
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 954 ehind me something shone like a star in the shadows, / increas
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 960 ight air. / There, ahead of us, a huge wall suddenly appeared,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 965 f the wall. / Behold, there was a plain, vast, and very beautif
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 968 om me every stench, / and such a light spread over the sacred
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 976 n.’ / Before me there gleamed a greater grace of fresh light,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 980 / and with the light there was a fragrance of a marvellous odo
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 988 e following: / ‘You have seen a valley filled with flames and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 995 e-clad young folk occupy, / is a place of rest, where those wh
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 999 he vicinity of which there is a place shining with excessive
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1003 take on the body / and to live a life among men that will end
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1022 the day of his death. / He had a companion fitting in merits a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1023 ng in merits and manners / and a colleague in exile, Wihtberht
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1025 parted from [Egbert] / to lead a segregated contemplative life
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1029 st, / he led them devoutly, on a narrow route by a straight pa
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1031 iracles and, in the manner of a prophet, / he saw many things
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1055 bed them and killed them with a cruel death: / for they straigh
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1056 ay cut down the fair one with a bloody sword / but practiced l
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1060 r, they soon were carried / in a marvellous manner against tha
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1069 the heavens.’ / Nor did such a vision as that deceive their
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1081 ter fulfilling governance for a cycle / of nineteen years, pas
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1082 ineteen years, passed away in a time of peace / and was laid t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1086 r the control of the church, / a man most famed for piety, fai
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1087 aith, merits, and intellect, / a lofty pontiff, the model of t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1088 ncient fathers, / pouring from a pure heart streams of learnin
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1091 mpanied him with clear signs, / a few of which I am pleased to
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1092 t pious father was conducting a holy fast / in company with wo
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1093 ith worthy men, he sought out a small enclosure / so that he c
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1097 heaven. / So, when he came upon a place suitable for discipline
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1098 ned conduct, / he then ordered a search to be made for destitu
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1100 Then there was brought to him a sick and mute young man, / who
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1104 of hair. / The pious bishop had a small hut built for this need
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1111 s command: / and speaking with a ready mouth, he broke his tac
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1118 is curly head, / and he became a handsome young man, ready of
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1122 chful care, / he came to visit a community of holy maidservant
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1123 rvants, / one of whose number, a certain young virgin, lay ill
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1124 ertain young virgin, lay ill. / A vein had recently been cut in
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1132 aightaway grew well, / and, in a marvellous manner, the whole
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1136 . / Another miracle occurred in a similar way to this one. / Beho
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1137 ilar way to this one. / Behold: a certain nobleman [gesith] sum
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1138 hn / so that he might dedicate a church building to the Lord. /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1142 ble to rise up from the bed. / A chilly pallor covered her pal
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1151 th renewed strength, she bore a cup / to the blessed priest, a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1154 he rendered thanks to God. / At a different time another noblem
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1155 [John] summoned / to dedicate a church of the Lord, as usual.
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1156 church of the Lord, as usual. / A boy of his happened to have b
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1159 y repeating chilly sighs with a faint gasp. / The nobleman [ges
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1161 paring his funeral rites / and a coffin stood nearby in which
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1170 back.’ / Afterwards, when the a bishop and the noble were sit
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1171 lad, being thirsty, asked for a cup to be fetched, / and his l
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1173 ould now drink, / he soon sent a goblet of wine blessed by the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1179 again, the bishop was taking a trip on horseback / with his c
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1180 rseback / with his clergy over a certain level field fit for r
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1181 g men were keen to contend in a horse-race / but the pious bis
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1186 ot-headed stallion leapt over a certain ditch, / and at the mi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1187 young man slipped and fell on a rock, / which happened to lie
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1191 e struck his head and hand in a terrible fall, / splitting the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1200 blessed him, / and called out a greeting to him by his own na
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1201 en the man rose up as if from a heavy sleep / and, opening his
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1209 s with unhesitating faith / in a historical account the Englis
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1212 r to another, / and sought out a monastery with devout heart,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1213 , / and in that place he ended a life befitting God, / and, the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1217 priest duly succeeded John, / a most worthy heir to that holy
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1236 d, and in the gifts of both, / a leader performing the matter
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1239 / in the church, he sought out a place of retreat apart, / wher
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1246 al life. / These he attained at a fixed time, one his present l
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1252 rived from royal stock, / from a lineage of noble parents in t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1259 or himself in Olympus. / He was a most famous ruler of the chur
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1289 rementioned bishop [Egbert], / a priest outstanding in merits
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1296 love of Christ, he sought out a pilgrimage / and died in exile
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1299 d with fitting honour. / After a long time his body was found
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1303 th much-famed manners. / For as a wise young man, he always kee
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1305 sed so that he rightly became a teacher. / Whereupon his much-f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1309 ote with marvellous precision a volume on time, / which contai
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1314 s of the ancient fathers, / on a direct path as long as he liv
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1316 r’s life was made plain / by a clear sign of healing after h
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1317 ng after his death: / for when a certain sick man was surround
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1321 e for you / in our verse; with a calm mind, now guard / and gui
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1325 reach safe harbour. / There is a place surrounded on all sides
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1331 cked, always opposing them as a blessed warrior / with the wea
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1333 th. / Indeed, that pious man at a certain time was alone / and i
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1335 ings, / when suddenly he heard a horrible clamour and shouting
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1336 ur and shouting / like that of a multitude bursting upon an en
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1338 s feet from the clouds above / a certain man’s soul, which t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1339 hreatening with great horror, a throng / of those wanting to t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1342 natched it to his bosom / with a gentle embrace and immediatel
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1344 o him / it replied: I was once a deacon but with wicked intent
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1345 t / I only embraced in my arms a woman’s breasts, . / and whil
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1364 en / through this pious father a sign similar to an ancient s
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1366 d it turn out for him. For at a certain time, while walking /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1367 king / along the steep edge of a lofty cliff, / it happened tha
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1368 ff, / it happened that he took a fall. But he was buoyed up by
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1370 , / and as if he were treading a field of soil, he wandered th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1372 sh ground would have received a falling man. / When he crashed
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1375 t drown him / so he wandered on a solid strait, as if on a path
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1376 h of earth, / until he reached a boat drifting on the waves, /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1377 o which he soon climbed after a safe journey on foot. / No liqu
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1381 the earth by contrast becomes a vengeful whirlpool for the wi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1388 e days there also shone Echa, a venerable / and holy hermit, w
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1393 cted many things to come with a prophetic mind. / My muse forbi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1396 the deeds of my own teacher, / a wise man known by the name of
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1398 able see after Egbert. / He was a good and just man, generous,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1399 , generous, pious, and kind, / a supporter, teacher, lover of
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1400 lover of the Catholic faith, / a leader, teacher, defender, an
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1401 and disciple of the church, / a cultivator of justice, a trum
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1402 law, a herald of salvation, / a hope for the poor, father to
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1409 of York, to proceed with me / a little further on this versif
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1417 red studies, / and when he was a boy, he was placed in a monas
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1423 and in wise mind, / and became a holy deacon in the appropriat
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1425 med this office well, / and as a respectable young man the und
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1427 grew in holy merits. / Then, as a pious and wise teacher and li
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1428 iest, / he attached himself as a close companion to bishop Egb
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1430 by whom he was marked him as a defender of the whole clergy,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1431 gy, / and likewise promoted as a teacher in the city of York. /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1435 rule / and pouring upon others a backflow of rhetorical speech
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1470 merits, / and was found to be a good shepherd in every way, /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1482 n. / For he became both things: a wise teacher and a pious prie
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1484 n the father advanced to such a height of honour, / did he cha
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1491 of baptism, the bishop built a great altar / and covered it w
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1495 uch. / Above this altar he hung a high candelabrum, / which held
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1499 as very large, and built with a beautiful design, / correspond
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1504 Cross. / He ordered that rather a large ampulla be made in refi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1507 opric the new construction of a marvellous basilica / was alre
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1522 mous servant of sacred rank, / a bishop faultless in merits an
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1524 gé / Eanbald, and sought out a place of retreat apart, / wher
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1566 likewise / after he sought out a place of retreat apart, / in t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1571 s you hasten to harbour, with a following wind in your sails
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1576 our father and teacher? / What a black day that was for us, bu
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1586 day shone in the sixth hour. / A mighty gathering came togethe
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1597 I wanted to end you here with a clear finish, my muse [Thalia
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1599 t, although tired, still sing a few verses / and touch briefly
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1600 y on what happened when I was a boy, / and which I also happen
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1602 itness myself. / So there was a certain young man raised in t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1604 uenced the time of my life as a boy with his advice. / One nigh
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1607 of the mother of Christ. / Then a blessed light suddenly filled
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1608 ong with the light there came a man in white clothing, / shini
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1616 the young man was stricken by a pestilence running through hi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1617 gh his limbs. / He was sick for a long time, and lay with death
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1621 mpty body remained. / But after a space, he returned, and moved
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1635 man had died. / However, after a short time in the same year /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1644 , saw from the lofty heights / a man descending, radiant of fa
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1651 htly brought cargo packed / in a vulnerable ship back to the h
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 9 u generously accept them with a kindly mind, / and request pard
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 12 s, prelate, / you who reigns as a wealthy man in the citadel of
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 16 ight, / holy father, I bring as a suppliant into your temple. / T
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 18 res, / but the second shines in a Pierian way. / There are those
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 22 not to be despised, / but what a gracious mind offered should
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 1 1 # Vita metrica S. Willibrordi / A certain man came from the wes
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 1 2 e western edges of the world, / a man powerful in virtue, fille
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 1 10 y seeds of eternal life / where a cultivator of the word had be
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 2 1 n that man, filled by God, as a light from Christ the Light, /
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 2 5 out the hearts / of many, until a pious flame of faith was lit
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 3 3 , / he rejoiced greatly in such a teacher of salvation, / and he
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 3 7 rst rank, / so that he might be a bishop and highest priest in
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 3 then held the apostolic hall, / a good and wise man, second to
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 4 piety. / Before the fourth day, a vision came to him in the nig
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 7 d foretold to him, / “Behold, a guest dear to God hastens to
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 8 the leader of the Franks with a generous gift. / At all costs,
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 9 s, remember to treat him with a gracious mind, / and soon you w
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 10 on you will consecrate him as a bishop with the highest honou
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 4 11 hest honour. / Let him also, as a priest, take from you whateve
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 5 2 eated the servant of God with a kindly mind. / He readily compl
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 7 4 nt error, / or among the Danes, a mighty ferocious people for c
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 10 4 h, / and the light had risen on a people who had for a long tim
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 11 1 / Then the bishop was granted a see in the city of Utrecht, / a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 11 3 n the doctrines of faith from a great master. / Straightaway te
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 12 1 ork, / / # / that he should bring a very great gain of souls to t
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 13 3 iefly on certain details with a hastening plectrum, / and attac
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 13 4 ctrum, / and attach headings to a few of his deeds in poetry, / a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 13 9 e, habits, and kind mind, / and a heart, always devoted to God
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 14 1 holy Law. / / # / Behold, once at a certain time, the bishop, dea
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 14 2 God, / was trying to break down a certain temple by himself. / Th
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 14 4 ruck the bishop’s head with a sharp sword; / but the blessed
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 14 9 and after three days he ended a bitter life. / In this way Chri
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 15 1 the venerable traveller took a trip / where the nearer path le
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 15 3 panions, / through fields which a greedy rich man owned. / The fi
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 16 3 hrough many lands, / he reached a place where the infertile typ
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 16 7 mpanions, / ordered them to dig a trench inside the tents. / When
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 16 10 but straightaway they merited a sweet stream. / Suddenly the pr
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 16 11 ly dry ground , brought forth a spring, / from which the compan
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 18 1 / # / The venerable one came as a guest to a certain religious
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 18 3 d been properly completed / and a greeting had been sent in the
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 18 5 entered the store-room, with a few companions, , / in which a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 18 6 a few companions, , / in which a single barrel contained hardl
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 19 1 se for himself. / / # / There was a man among the people who was
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 19 4 arts. / Behold, when he came on a certain day, the man knew not
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 1 rvant of the Lord, was making a beloved journey, / desiring to
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 3 relate entered the meadows of a certain rich man / to rest a li
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 4 of a certain rich man / to rest a little while with his weary c
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 8 meadows, / but instead come as a guest at our banquets, / and dr
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 10 ch man proudly responded with a furious mind, / “I do not wan
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 18 ine for him, / but when he took a cup, he could not swallow any
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 28 e against him / and offered him a drink himself with his own ha
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 20 30 / taking the cup, he swallowed a full draught. / / # / There is an
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 21 3 ly religious houses, / in which a multitude of pious peoples ke
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 21 5 of the Lord. / Among these was a house of holy sisters, / whom a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 21 6 a house of holy sisters, / whom a bitter plague had suddenly af
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 1 lives. / / # / The whole house of a certain father was vexed / for
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 2 certain father was vexed / for a long time by the rather frequ
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 3 cursions of a dark demon, / and a dread spirit tormented it wit
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 14 ague by holy prayers / and sent a blessed stream upon them in t
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 18 you are building for yourself a better house of longed-for sa
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 24 4 umble and harsh to the proud, / a comforter to the wretched, po
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 26 1 burial rites the fragrance of a wondrous odour / filled the who
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 28 2 ly father stands, / quite often a celestial light seems to shin
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 29 1 ace, shows. / / # / In that place a smell sweet with heavenly nec
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 29 7 thy of the merits of so great a father? / He is one who could r
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 29 9 now we pour forth tears from a pious heart in that place / whe
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 30 1 secrated body. / / # / Meanwhile, a woman paralysed in all her li
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 30 6 ring out her tepid tears with a weary voice. / Her faith alone
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 30 10 ightly through her limbs, / and a fiery heat flowed through her
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 31 1 arms of another. / / # / Behold, a certain youth suffered from a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 31 7 sort of wretch had come with a breast firm in faith, / brought
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 1 d glory always. / / # / There was a young , a servant of the alta
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 2 e secretly stole the gifts of a holy temple: / also a certain g
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 3 gifts of a holy temple: / also a certain gold cross was taken
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 5 when the pious traveller took a trip, with Christ as his comp
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 9 py man perished, destroyed by a cruel pestilence,. / But at the
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 12 he had taken. / After his death a huge fear grew, alongside pra
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 1 # / That noble priest was from a great race, / but he was much n
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 8 n, engendered him: / and he was a holy man, wise and upright in
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 9 e allowed for me to play with a poetic plectrum, / reader, so t
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 11 s like too, / and from how holy a root of his parents’ stock /
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 13 was brought forth. / There was a man among the people called W
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 14 / in Northumbria, living among a noble race. / Outstanding in mo
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 16 all the people, / one for whom a chaste life with his wife was
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 17 submitted to her spouse with a pious mind / just as Sarah had
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 3 / For she thought that she saw a new moon / with raised horns, a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 6 he light beamed before her in a full orb. / Suddenly, as she wa
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 11 revealed all these things to a certain priest, / whose life in
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 21 new light in the whole world. / A small little infant is being
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 23 be an outstanding teacher and a future prelate. / He will shine
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 24 ure prelate. / He will shine as a new light-bringer to our worl
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 29 proved the dreams to be true. / A boy was born from that mother
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 36 ss, / he handed himself over to a sacred monastery. / He lived wi
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 37 ved without transgression, as a brother joined to brothers, / n
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 51 trophies on his servant, / and a certain grace of the compassi
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 53 s it fitting for so brilliant a lamp to be hidden under a bus
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 54 r for it to be placed beneath a bed, / but rather it was to be
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 57 to touch on these things with a running plectrum / or to reveal
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 73 took care to bury his body in a church / which had been built a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 1 2 there flourishes the glory of a new church, / which signals th
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 1 3 signals the bright banners of a sacred victory; / here Peter a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 1 18 ices of those praying / and as a protector to the fearful, tog
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 2 12 le they earn forgiveness from a flowing stream of their tears
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 2 15 / brought forth from her womb a King to save the ages, / who a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 2 21 ver the fields of Jerusalem: / a garden closed up, burgeoning
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 2 22 ts flowering summit, / likewise a sealed spring, welling with a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 2 25 ffspring for the ages / and as a mother about to give birth, y
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 2 28 : / listen, its power provides a shady refuge for your heart;
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 2 . / / # 3 / This church, set up by a beautiful undertaking was ere
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 14 g been converted, he moved to a holy cell. / Then he sought th
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 18 ter him, there took his place a man famed in war and weapons,
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 19 and weapons, / King Cædwalla, a powerful keeper and heir of t
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 21 ughed the surging waters with a curved keel / and traversed th
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 36 s I have disclosed just now, / a third ruler here took up the
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 40 ble servant of Christ, / built a new temple with a most lofty
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 41 here sacred altars shine with a twelvefold name; / moreover, s
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 71 ornaments in the new chapel: / a golden cloth glows with its t
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 72 s twisted threads / and offers a beautiful covering for the sa
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 73 ng for the sacred altar. / And a golden chalice gleams covered
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 80 silver and jewels. / Here too a thurible surrounded on all si
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 12 as the saviour promised with a true voice / when he called to
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 13 to him as he was fishing from a curved boat. / And he trod on
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 17 eams. / And his shadow offered a remedy to those who had died,
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 20 on the power of God, restored a man / who was lame in his knee
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 29 climbed the very lofty top of a new tower / and, crowned with
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 35 o suffer horrendous wounds of a cruel sword. / And God, the om
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 3 crowds with prison, / is made a believer with his name change
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 5 fruitful words: / and from him a holy crop grew in the furrow
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 7 ersecute me, opposing me with a hard heel? / So when he was su
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 12 ceress called out to him with a wanton voice; / but after Paul
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 15 o empty air. / He resuscitated a youthful boy who was entering
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 19 zing with light? / He restored a sick man, lame in legs and ca
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 21 too, with the Lord providing a remedy, he quite quickly cure
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 22 ured / Publius’s father, whom a breathless fever was afflicti
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 23 thless fever was afflicting: / a torrid heat and wintry chill
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 24 e inflaming him / and likewise a shameful pain was afflicting
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 25 While Paul was piously piling a brushwood on the fire / so tha
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 27 e wintry clouds with its heat / a dreadful viper bit his hand w
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 33 s transitory life, / he sought a sacred martyrdom with red blo
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 34 , / and the purple gore ran in a stream from his veins. / Altho
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 35 / Although earth heaped up in a tomb may now cover his bones,
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.3 4 ho once cheerfully underwent / a horrible death, hanged in his
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.3 6 sing the waters of the sea in a small boat. / Straightaway And
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.3 15 dy end / when he was hanged as a martyr on the spreading stock
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.4 8 alsehood, they worshipped for a long time / the ancient rites a
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.4 12 es. / The savage tyrant Herod, a tetrarch of the realm, / murde
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.4 13 death, after he was struck by a sword. / But the lofty Father,
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.5 14 utcast into exile, carried by a ferry across the seas. / Set i
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.6 9 chaos of hell accompanied by a mighty multitude. / But the re
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.6 11 touched the slight wounds of a savage blade, / as Christ the
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.6 13 l / behind closed doors, where a fearful crowd was hiding. / The
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.6 23 away sought ethereal heaven. / A priest of a temple, a ministe
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.6 24 shrine, / ran him through with a hard blade so that he was dri
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 6 disturbance, killed him / with a fuller’s club, after he was
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 12 orned the woollen covering of a shaggy cloak, / wearing a line
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 13 g of a shaggy cloak, / wearing a linen mantel against wintry b
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 19 ng, which he suffered through a cruel death, / there occurred
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 21 Titus Caesar, accompanied by a mighty army, / along with his f
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 26 on of the city walls. / It was a time when a woman butchered h
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.8 2 f starvation. / / # 4.8 / Here too a section of verses commemorate
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.8 6 ages. / They lay paralyzed for a long time in the dread shadow
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.8 8 dark hearts / and serving with a twisted order of creation, / u
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.8 14 to convert Asia, / which, for a long time worshipped idols, m
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.9 7 the images of ancient gods. / A the Hebrew language in foreig
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.9 11 en, / as the poet once sang in a verse of the Psalms: / behold
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.10 3 ion, / set out Hebrew words in a simple little book, / narratin
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.10 17 e writer, once expressed it. / A prophet of God, filled with t
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.10 18 e saw him to be symbolised by a human likeness, / because he h
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.11 2 ot, the same man who was also a Canaanite, / made use of the n
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.11 5 ght seek the lofty kingdom by a heavenly path. / And his sacre
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.11 10 ucture of creation melts like a flow of wax, / with flame crac
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.12 4 s. / They said that he brought a letter in Christ’s own hand
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.12 11 building. / He produced for us a single book in eloquent langu
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.12 23 ing stars of heaven / for whom a punishment in dark storms is
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.13 4 in the high-throned one. / As a servant I beseech them in my
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 5 6 n Judas Iscariot, deceived by a wicked trick, / lost the lofty
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 5 9 in the middle as he hung from a high noose: / he had sold the
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 5 11 o that he could greedily gain a tawny coin. / For that reason
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 3 earnestly requesting me, / as a singer of hymns I have sung t
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 10 Behold, at night-time, after a wintry squall arose, / a storm
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 11 after a wintry squall arose, / a storm was battering the earth
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 34 ly does most often rise up as a golden star, / he was blinded b
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 35 blinded by darkness, as if by a dusky dimness. / The most spl
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 56 with victory at hand: / in such a way the sea began to swell wi
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 60 / Listen, many now appear in a manifest miracle: / the mercy o
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 73 g the shattered thresholds at a run, / heads for the door of th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 16 or to mislead the saints with a show of transgressions; / or le
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 19 cts from loftiest Olympus, / as a shepherd watching over his fo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 35 their chaste manners, / that I, a wretch, shall proceed in thes
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 36 vours / to spell out, if indeed a wretch can worthily set forth
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 8 s of the ploughed fields with a cooling spring / and swells the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 22 proclaimed, in the keeping of a promise. / I do not ask for v
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 27 , bore on Delos, / may grant me a tongue, loquacious in speech;
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 29 n unspeakable verses, / as once a subtle poet is said to have p
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 33 ons of the gentle Word / I seek a word from the Word: this is w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 37 cifully deign to grant aid to a frail servant. / For in the god
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 38 he godhead there is remaining a single essence; / in the godhea
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 39 the godhead there also remain a threefold existence. / The pecu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 40 may therefore be believed in a triple name, / but let the maje
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 41 majesty power be spoken of in a single name! / For faith compel
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 42 aith compels us to believe in a triple personage, / but the nat
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 50 way let the final writing of a trochee finish off the verse,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 58 on with braying throat, / when a prophet about to curse the pe
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 61 power, / you, who deign to form a shape of earth and inspire th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 67 than to pluck the chords with a plectrum / with which the pious
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 69 is keen to feed the mind with a mighty melody / and refuses to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 72 the greatest instruments / with a thousandfold blast, delight h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 84 heaven. / There is said to be a threefold distinction among t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 97 ch they were previously tied. / A third life shines in virginal
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 115 confirmed fruitful sheaves / in a hundredfold measure for the h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 119 lory of the heavens, / declared a sixty-fold fruit from the fie
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 122 ay their own temptations with a devout mind, / spurning the per
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 126 ramp down the interactions of a lawful life, / but rather freel
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 127 ather freely chooses to beget a generation of offspring / in th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 128 g / in the world and to produce a progeny of kin. / Therefore let
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 130 sty enflames / and whose hearts a love of purity provokes, / cont
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 132 t as divine opinion describes a twofold life. / For the blessed
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 136 h do not assail the soul; / and a maidservant over-rule her mis
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 137 mistress by a stupid act, / or a serving-woman ever govern wit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 141 an love of purity reigning in a pure chest? / For commemoration
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 147 it of high-throned God claims a temple for itself / if the blam
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 148 less will is inflamed in such a way in the heart, / as the bles
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 153 nity shines like the jewel of a crown / which encircles the hea
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 154 e head of the eternal king in a garland. / She tramps down with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 170 st from of dry branches; / like a shining pearl is nurtured in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 191 hts. / Purity of mind ruling in a chaste body / is a virgin flowe
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 192 nd ruling in a chaste body / is a virgin flower that does not k
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 203 in the sanctioned marriage of a lawfully wedded life / are not
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 207 / is not despised, even though a clasp with golden studs stand
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 211 / and willow-wood or made with a thin covering of parchment, / e
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 218 be spurned the deep water of a well / which a water-wheel is a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 219 he deep water of a well / which a water-wheel is accustomed to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 220 hough the splendid streams of a spring surpass it, / one that c
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 222 duces with icy waters, / nor is a diving-bird with its black wi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 233 e ancient men tell us: / it is a sign and symbol of the virgin
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 234 hat is to be adored, / which in a devout mind is accustomed to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 237 with their round seeds / which a skin surrounds in a simple co
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 245 es / how our former fathers led a splendid life, / and proclaimed
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 250 e distinction of virtues, / was a holy virgin, known by his fam
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 254 nguage. / Once, strengthened by a heavenly thunderbolt, / he had
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 256 ikewise driven to their death a hundred men / who were equally
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 275 ffer the ghastly damnation of a wicked world: / : for that reas
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 285 burning with virginal bloom. / A golden heifer marked him out
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 287 y Spirit will enrich him with a twofold gift / the same Spirit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 290 race in holy minds. / He roused a corpse constrained by dreadfu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 292 upid lads who, calling out in a raucous clamour, / were keen to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 297 rightly strikes sinners with a savage lash. / JEREMIAH flour
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 298 REMIAH flourished famous with a twin gift; / although he was th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 309 uently declare the oracles of a prophet: / and it is about him
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 324 hat holy DANIEL flourished as a perpetual virgin, / and that he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 325 nd that he established for us a pattern of blessed virginity /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 326 sed virginity / and pointed out a mirror of life to his discipl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 339 ng on his rule, the ruler saw / a mighty tree with leafy trunk
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 344 tic heart, soon realized / that a tyrant was rightly signified
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 350 having been made demented and a companion for four-footed bea
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 353 s of death; / and likewise with a bloody death he punished the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 355 . / At another time, conquering a dragon through his might, / he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 356 on through his might, / he cast a dark morsel into its horrendo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 364 uel torturers and thrust into a dark pit. / In this way Virgini
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 365 s way Virginity always guards a chaste friend, / despising grim
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 370 he slow-witted tyrant who, / by a terrifying order commanded a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 371 s of common people / to worship a deaf and dumb image of metal.
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 372 and dumb image of metal. / Then a trumpet with harsh-sounding b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 379 ecks to the wicked images. / As a result, that evil man threate
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 384 of those blessed boys. / It is a wonder to tell that the flame
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 388 ned with sparkling faith. / For a holy angel descended from the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 390 uishing red-hot lumps of coal a heavenly shower. / But why do
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 398 lord, / while Mary was bearing a heavenly child for earth. / He
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 416 lthough his mother had lacked a fecund body, / and for a long t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 417 lacked a fecund body, / and for a long time her womb grew cold
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 419 te in life. / No one, born from a woman’s womb, was greater, /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 434 t, / coming now in the image of a swift dove. / This bird , is th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 438 d: / but this gleaming bird has a gentle heart. / This prophet su
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 449 r daughter, / who demonstrating a dramatic diversion with a you
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 451 ignified Christ, / healing with a wound the dread wounds of the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 452 ng on the spreading branch of a cross / the violence of the gui
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 456 n the iron access fitted with a bar. / He shattered the bronze
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 484 t fathers to Christ. / However, a change came about: with a cha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 503 LUKE is given the likeness of a four-footed calf; / and he wrot
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 508 flesh. / The sacred garlands of a virginal crown adorned Luke; /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 517 putrid ulcers of innards with a poultice. / But from then on st
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 524 n ancient times Rome produced a clement priest, / to whom, righ
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 539 de him. / At the same time as a famous ruler shone forth in t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 543 its of the apostolic seat. / As a priest this man displayed ver
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 545 ough his virtue he once bound a scaly dragon, / constraining it
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 550 they preferred the worship of a terrifying serpent. / But when
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 551 ster had bound the beast with a choking collar, / cutting off t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 562 er the more potent heights of a fresh temple / which sparkled w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 567 eover, the same teacher waged a conflict / against twelve maste
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 580 ib magician whispered without a voice to a bull, / the quadrupe
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 582 ground bereft of breath, / and a mighty clamour from the crowd
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 592 is man was, as has been said, a companion of chastity / right u
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 593 passed his time and attained a heavenly life. / At one time
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 596 stretched his lordly limbs on a feather-bed mattress, / he look
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 598 ooning / the deformed figure of a wrinkled old woman , aged in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 603 hat she would once again have a healthy life. / Then, at the ru
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 604 en, at the ruler’s prayers, a beautiful young girl arose, / o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 606 nd, although she lay stiff as a corpse in the death of decay,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 607 eless she straightaway become a young woman with a beautiful
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 608 d rejoicing wreathes her with a crown, / surrounding her temple
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 609 / surrounding her temples with a garland of yellow gold, / and h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 610 orns her with the wrapping of a robe and with gowns. / Like a q
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 611 f a robe and with gowns. / Like a queen, she wore a ruby neckla
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 619 dream. / He brought together in a group of the learned eloquent
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 632 who you believed was old with a cruel countenance, / who greatl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 642 being carried on the back of a hoofed animal through barren
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 643 n country, / remember to plough a furrow with a standard’s ti
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 645 and, / cleaving four furrows in a dead straight line, / on which,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 646 e erected the lofty towers of a fortress, / you shall restore t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 651 gathered.’ / Now there was a priest of Italy, famous in pr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 653 e assurance of the spirit and a chaste body: / his name was dra
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 655 a. / Once this man, when he was a tender little boy in his crad
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 657 things to come. / For by chance a swarm of bees in great multit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 659 ey crowded around his lips in a terrifying mass, / nonetheless
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 670 is venerable teacher compiled a brilliant little work, / reveal
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 676 s frequent discourse, / leading a great number of gatherings to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 682 brought alms to the poor and a cloak to the needy / being devo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 683 o Christ, although he was yet a catechumen. / Who, indeed, rely
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 697 to make burnt offerings / (such a sin!) burning sheep’s entra
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 702 rm. / Although he never endured a weapon’s wounds / nor as a ma
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 703 ed a weapon’s wounds / nor as a martyr shed red blood / nor eve
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 714 g the association of body and a chaste mind. / For at one time,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 715 time, as he perceived through a dream, / he saw two girls glowi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 717 eeing them, he shuddered with a grim gaze, / since he did not c
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 723 love! / For you have granted us a pure shrine in your heart, / wh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 732 t there proceeded the norm of a balanced life, / which allows n
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 733 allows nothing to sink under a wicked weight / but weighs up t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 736 by alternating turns, / in such a way that the true concord of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 737 adorned, / and the compacts of a just mind may continually shi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 738 shine forth. / He also composed a book in learned language / layi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 749 nor shamefully touched at all a woman’s limbs; / nonetheless
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 754 thor ANTHONY, made blessed by a famous name, / who strove for t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 770 through curative care, / how as a doctor, halting the people’
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 776 t deserted places. No one was a more distinguished warrior, / a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 777 a more distinguished warrior, / a saintly man heading for an et
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 779 to fool this innocent man / by a wicked act, breaking the bond
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 780 ing, then, that man, made for a hideaway under a cliff cave / u
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 782 would once again grow glad in a quiet time. / The palm-date no
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 783 e palm-date nourished him in a tight retreat, / and he made us
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 784 made use of leaves instead of a robe’s warm covering. / There
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 785 of thirst with the welling of a spring, / sparkling, that the g
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 787 nd poured the water back into a hole below. / A swift bird nour
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 788 water back into a hole below. / A swift bird nourished this man
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 789 with meagre food of grain, / in a grotto under a palm’s high
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 792 ing jaws, . / Once he had lived a blessed life on earth sustain
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 796 dom, / to receive fresh joys as a victor on high. / In the same
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 799 N he was called, rejoicing in a famous name ; / and the world
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 803 heck his licentious body with a tight rule, / removing the burn
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 808 e. / For he burned up in flames a huge serpent, which for a whi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 810 ves in its dark throat, / until a pyre flaming with a vast pile
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 828 habitant of the desert living a life without reproach; / he con
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 830 ounding the fleshly prison of a licentious mind / maintaining t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 832 divine doctrine teaches that a twofold life / which a leader o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 833 hes that a twofold life / which a leader ought to distinguish w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 835 pulse needs to be controlled. / A far-famed grace used to fill
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 838 virginity’s key of. / For at a certain time a woman perceive
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 839 dream / how he was endowed with a plentiful gift of virtues; / in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 841 ng previously, she sustained a heart-complaint. / At the tim
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 847 Lord’s wandering people / on a straight path to the tracks o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 848 racks of the eternal kingdom, / a people that , having first pe
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 864 estroyed. / Indeed, he made new a vessel broken in a shattering
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 865 a shattering of fractures, / as a nurse poured out floods of te
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 866 out floods of tears; / he broke a poisoned goblet, which contai
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 871 fe, / monasteries might keep to a longed-for rule, / and in what
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 872 ged-for rule, / and in what way a holy worshipper might hasten,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 873 er might hasten, / ascending by a straight path to the lofty he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 880 of baptism flowed to us, / and a venerable crowd of teachers s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 881 wo twin brothers who, through a fraternal vow, / rendered their
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 890 in their buried flesh, / where a rocky tomb, dug four-cornered
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 895 s’ wishes. / There was once a bishop named by chance NARCIS
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 897 istinguished, he thrived with a double gift, / at the same time
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 901 life. / He caused the water of a font to thicken with oil / and
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 918 ive oil / and certainly that of a sow’s fat glowing in the gl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 919 g in the glass. / Straightaway, a crowd of folk, seeing such mi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 923 favourable fame to flourish. / A wicked council was convened,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 924 h three witnesses / who devised a grim crime through false accu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 925 dent the bishop’s fame with a serpent’s tooth / and dispara
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 931 e falsehoods in my speech.’ / A second followed bringing a cu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 935 s true proclamations.’ / Then a third witness brought forth a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 941 , fake false utterance.’ / As a result of that, the priest wa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 943 said to have lived far off in a grove, / plucking thoughtful sh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 944 ng thoughtful sheaves beneath a mountain, / while alone he chos
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 962 ones in their guile, / he made a show of the shady scene of th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 976 feated, / when he was proposing a savage schism; as he shameful
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 985 ers of baptism, / as if he were a bishop called according to pr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 986 gns foretold that he would be a holy man, / which the favourabl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 988 made serious what started as a game, / when kindly Alexander e
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 995 p with wicked schismatics and a thousand threats. / These same
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 997 bring him into disrepute / with a dense crowd of dishonesty, fa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 999 nd carried the maimed part in a coffin for the common folk to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1002 o previously had stood out as a reader in the way of books. / T
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1010 hand in rude health.’ / Then a new triumph became famous in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1013 d. / O how many useless men did a box-wood paleness cover / likew
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1019 by yet another deceit. / Indeed a wanton woman well-versed in w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1021 sness / But quicker than words, a priest blunted the bite of wh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1022 he bite of what she said / with a shield, overcoming with his u
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1026 ight to the deep obscurity of a cistern / empty of water, that
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1027 / empty of water, that offered a roof’s cover, / he hid inside
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1028 ’s cover, / he hid inside for a circuit of six years. / They sa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1052 up in tight knots, / so that as a suppliant he might pray to id
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1057 d that three youths, / bound by a brotherly bond, who the bisho
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1080 dly teaching taught these two a cure , / it was also divine fav
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1083 rom internal organs and apply a health-giving cure against di
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1103 t hand of the father revealed a harbour in the waves. / So that
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1105 r injuries with the poison of a Gorgon. / For the ferocious one
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1107 tenance of flames / and stuffed a furnace with the kindling of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1109 hat the pyre would burn up in a blaze of coals the innocent l
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1110 ich the sea, long swelling in a swirl / could not drown in the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1115 eir lives were saved, / just as a salamander is accustomed to d
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1116 chance it is gathered up into a wood-pile’s stack. / Then the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1117 climb onto the broad wood of a cross / and suffer intense arro
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1129 s, so it is said, gifted with a clever mind, / a boy burning wi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1130 d, gifted with a clever mind, / a boy burning with brilliance a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1131 at heart. / After this, when as a noted reader / he drank in with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1140 on into the dark blackness of a bolted prison, / greatly fearin
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1141 reatly fearing the decrees of a wicked treasury. / Nervously, h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1144 oon devised another plan with a scheme, / and applied the dange
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1147 erings of purple robes, / which a silkworm had produced at the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1161 lingered upon his mouth. / As a final trial there came Daria,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1162 / full-grown and blushing with a beautiful face, / who wore a go
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1163 th a beautiful face, / who wore a golden brooch with blue-green
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1175 thus. / Then they contrived by a pledge feigning the union of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1176 ived together harmoniously in a chaste manner, / so that deep i
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1181 old spoils from her mind / and a new blanket might be taken up
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1187 and guarded by seventy men in a throng of warriors, / unless he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1188 arriors, / unless he would make a sacrifice of incense at the s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1189 the shrine of Hercules. / Then a dread warrior began to tormen
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1193 the flaming sun. / But quick as a flash those ligatures were lo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1199 n in with blinded minds. / Then a cruel attendant ordered that
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1200 drenching his holy limbs with a putrid stink, / since they say
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1204 the torturers commanded that a heifer be flayed of its hide /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1215 d have wounded the saint with a knotty withy. / But, amazing to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1234 ores, / entering the brothel of a harlot while being without an
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1235 ing without any lewd sin; / but a roaring lion was sent from it
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1240 / swiftly the wanton man, with a confused expression would die
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1242 e avenging punishment through a beastly death. / Then at last
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1245 they rest together buried in a crypt in the sand / whom bloody
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1251 mbs . / Once time had passed, a savage storm, / bloodying the h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1253 ith heathen weapons, / piled up a thousand perils of death for
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1255 out offence of guilt, / so that a warrior of Christ, after a sw
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1257 f evil torturers. / Among these a certain martyr, JULIAN by nam
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1263 rowing in tender years, being a scholar in skill / the student
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1266 he was offspring sprung from a famous line, / to undertake the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1268 here would then be from there a coming lineage of descendants
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1269 , / if he would choose to marry a wealthy wife. / He insisted tha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1276 er, / when at night he duly saw a heavenly vision. / The blessed
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1279 man, that you will be granted a young woman with a dowry / and
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1281 r remember to preserve her as a holy helpmeet, / the maiden who
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1282 den who is joined to you with a pure body! / For she will remai
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1283 ure body! / For she will remain a tireless companion of chastit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1295 oom they saw the narrative of a book, / directed by the King of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1302 set them apart, / in no way did a lower hierarchy of their virt
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1311 eservedly suffered blows from a knotty club; / the beatings rev
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1314 ervant followed his Lord with a dedicated mind, / heading on a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1315 a dedicated mind, / heading on a narrow path to the citadels o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1316 eviously the master headed on a narrow track, / taking away the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1319 that outstretched beam. / Then a torturer felt damage to his p
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1342 hich gold leaves adorned with a gilded garland. / Alcides is sa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1375 s power after expelling him, / a eunuch, against nature, as th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1388 was hard stone squared off by a bond of lime; / but likewise on
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1395 l. / Then the sole offspring of a prefect willingly believed / wh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1403 ly scent of ambrosia; / nor did a ray of light cease, relinquis
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1406 aints by blessed virtue. / Then a guard, seeing such great mira
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1408 baptism, he was pressed in by a crowd of warriors / who had pre
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1410 Meanwhile [Julian] commanded a corpse, punished by death, / on
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1411 , punished by death, / one that a bandage covering had previous
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1423 tuffed with kindling / in which a burning black mass of pitch b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1429 heir fingers / and straightaway a devouring fire burnt them up
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1449 once received in their hearts a balm for the spirit and flesh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1450 / In ancient times there was a certain famed servant / attendi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1456 y signs of virtue, / and he was a native of Nitria with its bur
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1461 such things, / if there is such a thing as chance or fate or th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1463 mortal lives with the spin of a spindle / which conveys the mil
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1468 n cleansed they sparkle. / At a certain time [Amos] came upon
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1471 he lacked the boat he wanted. / A shame at his appearance stopp
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1473 en, quicker than speech, like a swift bird he was carried wit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1475 far side, / just as long ago in a moment of time a dish-bearing
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1478 d’s servant of the. / Look: a certain boy who torn by a mas
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1494 another time he demanded that a cask be fetched / which two men
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1502 w him being borne, / carried by a crowd of angels to the stars
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1507 our-cornered world, / providing a just model to five hundred br
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1511 ing like this, / praying nearly a hundred times in the darkness
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1518 celebrated fame. / But far off, a pagan cult of common people p
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1519 persisted, / where there stood a temple dedicated in the ancie
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1523 nted multitudes / were carrying a wicked statue from the temple
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1525 cchanalian crowds to stand in a column, / so that none of them
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1534 ter the enemy chains, / so that a way through the fields would
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1535 th they would be able to make a journey. / He put a stop to del
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1536 ble to make a journey. / He put a stop to delay by pouring pray
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1542 ashing them into fragments. / A terrifying quarrel once distu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1555 lt of terrible slaughter. / But a certain rabble-rouser raged w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1557 ng that he would never prefer a pledge of peace / until he shou
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1561 your words, about to come to a cruel end! / Doubtless you alon
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1564 h the earth will not give you a grave, / but the savage beast w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1572 elieved that [Apollonius] was a prophet, / since the quick outc
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1579 the desert everywhere / and for a company of the faithful to co
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1592 ey saw before the entrance of a cave fabulous feasts / and gene
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1597 and pips, / grapes and figs and a large number of loaves laid o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1615 grain in any way, / nor yet did a small basket run out, with cr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1619 ld: I shall set out praise of a splendid priest / while the men
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1623 ut its farthest edges. / He was a virgin, a spokesman and prese
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1633 nered world. / Indeed, there is a splendid crowd of readers all
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1645 salmist sang? / For that reason a rival, defiled by the plague
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1650 / surrounding him on all sides a dense encircling crown. / But h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1665 follow the lord of light with a devout mind, / when the virgina
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1671 es do not know the ravages of a cruel thief, / but where the pe
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1676 ightly celebrates. / She was of a famous lineage of the race of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1677 ineage of the race of Israel, / a fertile virgin pregnant with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1685 world, / when he granted her as a sanctuary for Christ and a te
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1698 proclaimed in song: / ‘She is a garden enclosed, burgeoning o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1699 geoning on blossoming summit, / a fountain sealed up, swelling
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1700 the heavenly stream, / and also a quivering dove.’ To her the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1701 nt angel spoke: / ‘Behold, as a virgin you will produce immor
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1702 duce immortal progeny, / and as a mother about to give birth, y
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1707 mother’s womb swelled with a baby / who, when he had been bo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1719 ets snares for saints so that a warrior may not hasten / to the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1724 / This patron supports me with a heavenly pledge, / so that I ca
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1743 the world in her mind / and, as a dedicated young lady, she fol
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1749 through her chaste body with a bloody edge: / her beautiful bo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1755 rl’s limbs of the girl with a harmless blaze. / In punishment
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1756 / In punishment, there was not a single torment of her body, / b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1757 rment of her body, / but rather a triple torture afflicted her
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1766 is, she bought with her blood a martyr’s the garland of, / an
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1769 / although her bones rested in a sepulchre’s tomb / and her ho
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1771 in the starry citadel. / For at a certain time Mount Etna, seet
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1775 ountain rushed headlong. / Then a Sicilian minister, seeing the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1782 those who were to suffer was a certain young virgin, / LUCIA,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1784 e was born of good stock from a famous family, / several young
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1788 rged her mother, worn down by a weakness of blood, / to touch t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1791 another woman, afflicted with a flow of blood, / secretly touch
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1800 hrist continually / and that as a virgin she preferred to spurn
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1810 traightaway the grim heart of a suitor seethed, / infected with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1811 suitor seethed, / infected with a Gorgon’s evil, since she ha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1812 iour had joined to himself as a full-grown spouse, / taking the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1813 aking the girl betrothed with a dowry of blood. / The frenzied
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1820 n though she was dragged with a rope to a vile brothel / and li
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1830 o then the judge, racked with a grievous sickness of the mind
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1832 iolated her pure innards with a rigid sword, / and purple blood
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1839 e to the city of Rome / so that a heavy vengeance could punish
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1841 ng shed for having dared such a deed. / So too shall I sing i
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1854 magic potions. / At that time, a certain Cyprian was famous fo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1867 e never could be conquered by a thousand black arts of evil, /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1876 blessed virgin was adorned by a twin triumph: / since the vener
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1878 ight-white woman bloomed with a virgin’s garlands. / Alongsid
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1885 IA, sprung from famous stock, / a red gem gleaming with a virgi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1890 us love / so much so that while a woman she cut off her own hai
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1898 skilful artifice, / so that as a wise virgin she might be able
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1904 ed with iron-hard cares. / Then a might crowd of neighbours, al
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1906 eir breasts and poured forth / a salty stream of grief from th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1921 o the unfortunate woman, with a ring of people surrounding he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1925 There flourished in the world a certain young virgin of Chris
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1931 icked filth of the world. / But a suitor, a Roman citizen, the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1934 ersistent prayers. / He offered a golden neck-ring with ruby ge
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1937 th the bird-lime of gifts, / as a bird-catcher traps a bird wit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1940 shameful words, / or if she, as a virgin, should be bombarded b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1941 graceful kisses: / fearing such a mousetrap, she spurned the wa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1943 always preserving her body in a virginal pact. / And it was He
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1944 o properly betrothed her with a dowry of faith / and it was His
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1950 / and poured forth from heaven a clear light from light / so tha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1952 he chaste one was shoved into a vile brothel of whores / so tha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1957 or approached, accompanied by a dense crowd, / spitting chatty
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1963 to harm the saintly one / with a sinful deed gave up his life
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1968 he chill of death. / so that as a result of that there would be
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1975 Kings, who rules in heaven. / A virgin dedicated to God flour
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1984 r and father, having arranged a betrothal, / both busied themse
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1988 nts rained down upon her with a storm of words, / just as the h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1990 er down tempestuous drops. / As a result, the furnace and blazi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2008 ody in purple blood, / while as a martyr she ascended to the th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2016 ight follow Christ freely. / As a result, she despised the lux
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2024 e time of the Goths there was a certain young virgin / who, bec
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2026 abundantly enriched her with a heavenly gift, / and she gained
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2031 ther, / who was bound to her by a fraternal bond, / so that at ni
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2040 the whole sky grew dark with a cloudy storm / and the vaults o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2043 e trembling earth quaked with a great crash; / damp fleecy clou
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2049 God hears those who pray with a devoted mind, / even though the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2051 rds of comfort from anyone. / A noble and very beautiful virg
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2064 d the maiden in marriage with a dowry, / once she had already g
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2065 ready grown to adolescence in a virgin’s years. / For she had
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2067 pledged to an upright suitor, / a man more eminent than anyone
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2073 he High King / rather than live a wealthy man in fine delights
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2075 came about for him. / For at a certain time the Scythian arm
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2076 ncing with grim weapons, , / in a densely crowded formation / and
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2081 b menacing: / so that there was a terrifying spectre of horrend
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2086 doning the ancient temple, as a noble Christian, / if the custo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2090 en in the voice of one making a vow, / the nobleman immediately
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2104 eins of the world, / so that as a poor warrior he might follow
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2109 t voice, / so that the creator, a lover of chastity, might keep
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2121 ile, there flourished in Rome a young recruit of Christ, / EUST
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2127 the seductive constraints of a well-kept marriage. / Nonethele
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2130 of his earthly limit, / just as a matron bemoans the man taken
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2134 losure, incites, / Eustochium, a virgin, did not feel with bit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2141 king on the role of Christ in a drama of betrothal. / In this w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2151 reasure-stores of books / which a foreign shadow had covered ov
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2153 er, the same teacher composed a written work / adorned in polis
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2158 id Paula’s daughter live as a most select virgin / until her
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2165 , / who was born in Europe from a fortunate family, / yet her hol
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2168 mong common folk. / For just as a lamp-wick is not hidden in th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2174 early stages of her life with a noble heritage, / nonetheless s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2176 th the merits of virtues like a jewel in a crown. / Having beau
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2178 of the Thunderer used to have a frowning brow. / A rich crowd o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2179 used to have a frowning brow. / A rich crowd of contending suit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2181 eing fortunate, she possessed a very great inheritance of ric
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2184 ted to abandon the display of a dowry / but rather to linger on
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2187 together. / For recently I read a book in stylish writing, / whic
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2190 hen her holy letter entreated a teacher across the sea, / so th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2192 ine for her offspring / in such a way that she might store up a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2194 stain of licentiousness. / At a time in which the torments of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2215 d spreads widely her fame / and a continual stream of praise be
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2217 g not cared for the chance of a husband, she followed the Lor
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2225 y to look at, was inflamed by a vile fire / and assailed by the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2243 e, / and they fled far away, in a mighty shrieking mass; / abando
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2244 the spectre they thought was a dusky ghost. / For the wicked p
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2248 ry. / Then the demented one, in a complaint, sought the emperor
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2250 en, the leaders, gathering in a dense circle, / struck him with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2265 uld kill them side by side by a grim death / if Christ’s serv
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2270 hough the cruel one laid down a hundred strokes. / Then he orde
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2275 the host on high, / heading by a different path to the rewards
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2284 Aurelia, / consulted them about a fine dowry from noble suitors
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2292 d / the wanderings of errors on a rutted track. / For that reason
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2297 ht devise. / So side by side in a litter they sought familiar e
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2298 ortunately they controlled in a far part of Etruria. / But for
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2299 far part of Etruria. / But for a second time, after their suit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2312 / ropes and clubs and rocks in a hard shower / clawing blue-blac
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2318 e citadel on high! / Then for a second time the prison lackin
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2332 acred servants / to be bound by a knot at the neck with a weigh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2337 ch virginal body floated like a ship’s plank, / returning bac
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2352 there arose by chance in Rome a rumour of two sisters / bombard
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2368 return for credit in heaven. / A winged messenger, glided down
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2370 e brilliance, / he was carrying a rod-like withy in his holy ri
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2374 in your anxious breast, / since a marriage-bed is placed for yo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2377 / if virginity protects you as a tireless companion!’ / Then
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2378 oth kept the companionship of a chaste life, / as the angel had
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2387 of the city of Tribula. / Where a deadly dragon belched its bre
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2389 n extent that the citizens in a great seething mass, / now pref
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2398 the hordes promised that with a unanimous voice, / at once the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2403 he blessed virgin, relying on a heavenly triumph, / drove out t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2407 nstilled fields, / just as with a terrifying word she had order
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2411 d fled, / they deigned to build a cell for her. / Soon, just as t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2420 egan to brandish / the blade on a drawn sword, spilling bloody
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2427 ing suffered exile because of a wicked tyrant. / Look, after ob
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2429 stored , / the panting chest of a consul’s offspring, constra
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2430 senses and as wandering with a brutish mind . / With the rumou
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2432 ey crowded round the saint in a throng , / and the virgin resto
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2435 snake-charmer who had aroused / a savage serpent with his incan
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2439 nake-charmer in its coils. / As a result, he swiftly hastened t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2443 hite martyr followed him with a double garland: / chastity best
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2479 with dry feet, / and completed a period of years of four decad
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2487 ilence in the first conflict. / A sinful phalanx follows [Glutt
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2497 the heavenly breath of life, / a long time ago fell, laid low
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2498 ow by greedy deceit, / when he, a glutton, plucked the forbidde
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2499 e from the tree; / and from him a pestilential seed grew up in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2500 , / and from that there grew up a crop thick with a vile harves
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2504 ce with their waters, / planted a vine with burgeoning shoots i
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2506 his son laughed stupidly with a shameless voice; / and his brot
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2508 ing him under the clothing of a robe. / If Bacchus could compel
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2513 she might lose the victory of a heavenly crown, / since a drunk
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2514 ry of a heavenly crown, / since a drunkard does not know how to
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2516 rally among wicked men / and as a host offered the shelter of a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2520 itting the crimes of Sodom in a wicked way, / did the father no
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2526 and driven out, laughing with a stupid voice, / reproached his
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2544 Next, the bland wars stir up a second contest, / licentiousnes
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2564 death, / the chaste one carried a bloody trophy in a leather b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2565 kept her chastity intact with a devoted heart. / In this way in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2571 that, love of money, promotes a battle, / a Vice perhaps best u
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2572 of money, promotes a battle, / a Vice perhaps best understood
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2577 her vile companions, that is, a thousand lies, / deceits, and t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2586 evils. / For that reason, may a virgin try to break this vice
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2587 try to break this vice, / since a greedy bearer of a purse [Jud
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2588 gainst the Lord of light with a dark dodge: / with frenzied han
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2589 dge: / with frenzied hands like a thief, he stole the pouch he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2591 ance punished this guilt with a deadly end, / and afflicted the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2592 / and afflicted the thief with a cruel beating; / the one who, o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2593 ut of his mind and blinded by a gift of solver / sold the King
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2597 ourishing vineyard to , / after a cruel wife wrote a wicked doc
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2602 weapons / once lay buried under a mighty rain of rocks. / As for
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2608 h the shattered city-walls / as a result of his greed for golde
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2609 by chance there was just such a death for his wretched househ
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2610 ched household, / whom likewise a mass of rocks crushed to deat
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2616 red city, / which had stood for a long time spacious in its sev
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2619 ny coin; / just as the fires of a kindled hearth crackle more f
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2624 e and hell / can be compared by a threefold example of things. /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2625 ed, fierce Anger has gathered a fourth company by, / and she, f
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2631 t, temperate Patience carries a small shield / and, about to sh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2643 d our unprotected minds. / In a fifth mob, the advancing atta
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2651 haps they falter, / the joys of a troubled heart and a spirit t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2656 away, / lest the uprightness of a weakening soul should fall he
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2659 allows no one to weaken with a deadly wound, / unless the desp
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2662 s components are separated by a double path, / one of salvation
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2670 , Restlessness is thronged by a dense force. / Ever-vigilant co
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2678 l on the path of Scripture. / A seventh army follows, with pa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2697 first, the headlong strife of a lethal word: / then heresy incr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2710 s of others. / From that root a black and burgeoning bush is
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2711 d burgeoning bush is born / and a shady grove grows from the dr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2728 e born, / as well as the sin of a heart refusing to obey what i
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2739 the creator, / as he considered a horrid crime in his dark brea
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2746 their blessed lot: / but while a third part of the stars fell
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2752 roud serpent here on earth. / A humble member of a retinue wh
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2756 assume the praise of fame / if a gnawing worm bores through th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2759 ssigns praise in reputations: / a humble virgin can climb to lo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2760 hey follow Christ, who offers a model to his followers / and ha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2762 material presses me down like a large load, / so that this docu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2775 icked fruits of Scripture, / as a cow crops from the meadow the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2781 eeds, and bundles of ferns. / A day itself, I say, although b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2791 gh the vine-shoot sprouted in a meagre field; / from where, plu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2793 , / I pressed out quite quickly a small amount of metrical must
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2795 of drinkers will perhaps make a strident noise while it is be
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2796 ile it is being drunk, / unless a deceitful inn-keeper pour in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2804 approaches the sea-shore; / as a sailor crosses the foamy ocea
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2812 nged-for lot! / Therefore, as a poor suppliant, I beseech the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2814 nd by virginal deeds, / and, as a tiny wretch will entreat with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2819 from the guilty who have had a change of heart, / insofar as b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2828 aints, deign in turn / to offer a wretch devoted assistance. / th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2829 hose whom I have described in a metrical song on virginity / so
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2839 d in the flat countryside, / if a letter should stumble or a sy
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2851 not learn how to put forward a helmet of metre on his head / n
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2852 how to defend his spine with a breastplate of prose. / Let a s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2853 h a breastplate of prose. / Let a sword-hilt arm his right hand
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2855 nor his thighs iron: / nor let a writer fear the trivialities
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2856 terrifying tongue! / For it is a spectre that terrifies the tr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2859 warrior does not shrink from a spectre or ghost, , / but relyi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2869 th their foreheads, they scan a text / which stands by chance a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2870 a text / which stands by chance a twin thing in distinct books,
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2881 endants: / they will advance in a dense battle-line in companie
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2898 / cleansed the filthy flaws of a sinning world.) / With these on
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg prohemium 6 church, in whom, with fire as a guide, love would be ever-pre
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg prohemium 27 t, / produced in our own times a venerable thunderbolt, / where
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg prohemium 28 bolt, / where Cuthbert leading a life among the golden stars,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg prohemium 38 ve the rewards of the word to a tongue singing Your gifts! / / #
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 3 / summons him to true joys by a special gift, / and teaches hi
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 8 ars. / When by chance those of a young and tender age were pla
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 11 ed this boyish behaviour with a worthy teacher, / for from amo
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 12 from among the youthful band a tiny child who was there / tol
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 15 leeting exertion, / but to fix a firm mind on the love of the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 16 ove of the Lord. / But, being a boy, [Cuthbert] laughed at th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 17 eight, he did not like having a three-year-old teacher. / The
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 24 h justifiable complaints from a sorrowful heart: / ‘Why, de
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 25 f through empty-headedness to a frivolous game / — you whom G
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 29 ack, / or will it be right for a bishop to mimic the deeds of
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 32 these things, and the Spirit a kindly companion for all time
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 36 ch should fill the innards of a suckling child. / Meanwhile, th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 38 ers his feeble footsteps with a pine staff. / When one day th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 41 mbs in the open air, suddenly / a venerable rider arrives in sn
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 42 attire / — likewise there is a similar grace to the steed
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 45 mobility were not hampered by a terrible restraint; / for look
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 46 : my knee is swollen, and for a long time now the care of doc
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 49 hining wheatmeal with milk in a pot, / and cook them together i
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 53 me path by which he had come. A cure followed the advice, / an
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 56 ht of Tobias with the gall of a fish. / Then, having reinforced
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 59 erer with prayers. / There is a noteworthy place above the mo
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 60 was already flourishing with a splendid troop of monks. / Wh
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 66 t appears on the waves, / like a feathered sea-bird floating o
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 71 opposite — / there was also a huge throng and a countless c
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 72 e sad chances of the good are a pleasure to the wicked / — a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 76 , / that He may deign to grant a path to salvation.’ / But t
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 84 ng with starry bands carrying a saintly soul / into the sky ami
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 89 le I fully vigilant I saw for a brief time such glories / of Go
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 91 of Olympus are opened, / where a blessed spirit is introduced
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 94 -throned king. / That man was a bishop, I think, shining most
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 105 hout the world, to be told in a memorable account; / but it su
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 107 touch on one as an example. / A certain priest, when ordered
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 116 he ship was ploughing without a care through the middle of th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 117 e of the deep, / when suddenly a serious wintry storm set in,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 121 ed glad passage. In this way a single miracle / shines with a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 122 a single miracle / shines with a twin beam: he who had previo
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 127 th God, / after setting out on a journey was held back by a ra
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 128 — coldness flew everywhere, a storm-cloud covered the stars
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 130 of of an ancient bothy / which a shepherd had built in the lon
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 134 suddenly sees the horse take a bite out of the roof of the v
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 135 for the pious youth, sent as a gift from on high, a feast /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 140 e storm abated, / continues on a calm journey joyfully, with C
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 145 found worthy to see / and feed a citizen from the ramparts of
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 146 rrived with the appearance of a guest in the middle of winter
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 161 inds the interior filled with a rosy scent, / amazing to say,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 164 uthbert spoke as follows with a trembling heart: / ‘I see t
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 173 t was your fruit. / Nor is it a surprise that the fine one sc
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 175 uthbert] deserved to receive a vision / of celestial citizens
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 178 n his speech, / accustomed, as a way of praising the Lord, to
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 182 g; / someone, following him by a slow path, was keen to make o
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 191 the saintly body; / then with a suppliant gesture they beg to
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 196 uck with fear / and, hidden in a hollow cave, he draws half-dy
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 200 ecause he had chanced to pass a sad night with a sudden solem
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 202 ‘secretly testing me / from a cave? But now your error wil
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 208 f the Thunderer is present as a witness to [Cuthbert], / as he
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 210 lay bare his mind. / And now a prophetic power from the star
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 215 r and cold and the dangers of a raging sea / had battered the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 216 ttered the fearful sailors on a foreign shore, / the holy day
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 222 e earth has grown white under a damp accumulation, / the air d
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 227 the sea for His own, / granted a home in the clouds, bread fro
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 228 rifying shadows of night with a flaming guide. / This very da
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 229 ch great gifts in the form of a present, / on which the Magi,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 231 reasures, / behold and pray to a mortal, king, and God; / on wh
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 234 n which sweet wines gives off a fine scent from the swell of
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 240 s if sliced from the flesh of a fish, / and in veneration on b
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 243 th with praise; / moreover, as a prophet, he says, ‘the Crea
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 245 ters / He will lead us back by a ship-bearing path to our nati
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 251 btained the merit and rank of a priest, / he set out to renew
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 253 ent of the future, he said to a chance companion on the way,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 256 ut this. / We have not brought a meal in vessels, since there
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 261 ty can feed us even with such a servant.’ / And as they car
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 262 ad started, they come down to a river / and they see the bird,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 266 has sent.’ And he brought a fish: / [Cuthbert] cuts it in
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 278 urbing the faithful with even a small cloud, / so that the dec
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 279 that the deceitful Enemy like a vile servant may seduce us / f
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 281 ing. / Among these admonitions a voracious fire, surging from
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 294 rackling flames / snatched off a dry roof of thatch, / he bent
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 297 t. / Nor is it any wonder that a feeble blaze should have yiel
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 300 he heavenly shield of Christ. / A man came to the noble man and
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 301 iant intones his prayers, / in a fearful voice: ‘My dear wi
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 309 secret power / that it was not a common kind of death, but tha
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 312 de bursts into tears and with a sad heart / grew terrified tha
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 315 ppressed / with insane raving, a suspicion would arise about h
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 320 ve and, melted by the heat of a silent furnace, / are now wash
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 321 shed by the moisture which is a sign of a sad heart?’ / Or
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 327 will take up these reins with a mind already sound.’ / The
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 335 efers to roam / the recesses of a place apart, where with God a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 339 e path of virtue, / he becomes a companion to those monks whom
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 348 in deeds / and how he whetted a mind inspired to the heavens
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 349 nce his external splendour is a clear index of his pure soul?
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 355 isappeared into thin air like a wisp of shifting smoke. / That
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 357 founded an ethereal city with a terrestrial earthwork, / and s
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 366 derer. / This place was lacking a spring, but the saint through
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 369 s dwelling, / and still offers a sweet draught to all who drin
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 371 was driving away thirst with a gushing stream, / He was able
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 376 ope to the tamed clods. / When a splendid crop sprang up from
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 383 mine, so that you would put / a curved sickle to the soil? /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 388 but rather they loved him as a devoted friend of their kind,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 389 kind, / bound to them as if by a sweet bond of peace, / for [Cu
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 390 ] himself ruled this flock as a shepherd his tender sheep. / Th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 391 avens cancel the agreement by a dirty deed; / they break into
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 399 gs, and begs forgiveness and a way back. / Having made peace
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 402 some pork fat / with them as a worthy gift for the saint, wi
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 407 through prayers, weeping and a gift. / It should not be sham
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 408 hould not be shameful to take a model for life / from the sens
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 413 es / to heavenly commands with a devoted mind? / For [Cuthbert
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 414 or [Cuthbert], about to build a little house there / suitable f
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 415 re / suitable for his use which a base facing the sea would sup
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 430 gh these empty tricks without a problem. / ‘How often’, he
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 431 wicked cast me headlong from a lofty rock! / How often do th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 435 the tips of my toes / or even a little terror touched my hea
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 439 with the Lord. / The life of a monk is rather strict, and is
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 440 authority it devoutly serves a father. / Monks rejoice humbly
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 451 outh that [Cuthbert] would be a bishop. / While everyone was re
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 455 s, driven by splendid signs, / a royal virgin came to him; as
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 456 petual bride of the King, / as a chaste mother she produces vi
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 459 lt of the sea, he sets out in a boat, so; / and while he is ta
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 468 ch, / though they were to last a hundred years, will come to a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 469 ef moment; / and the luxury of a single year will be reckoned
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 491 hortly, and that perhaps once a two-year / cycle has passed I s
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 500 les / he is to govern, so that a lantern should not be hidden
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 505 y respect, / the sun completed a full year with the usual mont
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 509 ring to celestial wisdom with a dedicated heart; / for he had
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 511 ds of his homeland / so that as a diligent exile he might learn
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 514 by paternal right. / And like a new Josiah, more mature in fa
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 519 elf, pleasing to the bitter, a lone monk among crowds; / nor
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 526 walking through the lands of a certain nobleman, whose ailin
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 529 ater bringing salvation, with a priest assisting, and removed
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 531 vice. / At around the same time a virgin was suffering, / afflic
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 533 head, / lay sick groaning for a long while; the bishop anoint
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 535 ugh reviving gifts of health. / A man, the very father of a hou
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 537 is friends to his deathbed. / A good number arrive; by chance
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 539 consecrated and given him as a holy gift when he asked. / Th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 545 g him the paralyzed limbs / of a young man on a bed, scarcely
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 549 hed friends. / At the time when a dread plague was laying Brita
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 551 alvation everywhere, / he sees a mother sadly bearing the impe
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 553 or the grieving woman, / gives a kiss to the boy and speaks to
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 555 le household will be clear of a deadly fate’. / The health o
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 561 essity made liquid drawn from a fountain stream / turn into th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 567 should I strive to capture by a number the miracles of a sain
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 568 les of a saint / whom so great a grace of prophetic glory supp
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 572 s of war would soon result in a wretched end and, / drenching
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 576 truggle is over, / is allotted a set end with the Lord as judg
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 578 ceals recognized dangers with a doubtful voice: / ‘See, my
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 579 oice: / ‘See, my sons, that a novel wonder disturbs the upp
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 582 / Not many days passed when a dread report / sang of the uns
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 588 , taught by his guidance, led a lofty life / apart in the wild
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 614 om the world / in the space of a single day and are borne to t
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 615 , his feverish limbs burnt by a slow furnace / finally sent fo
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 619 ven in conjoined step, / enjoy a conjoined reward for all time
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 627 m the sky, / and having chosen a warrior from your forces / was
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 629 ng triumph.’ / She asks for a name. ‘Tomorrow’, he sai
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 632 ds.’ / Having speedily sent a messenger to all her people,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 635 rs at the altar: / that while a man was climbing to the heigh
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 641 years / with the authority of a bishop, and had watered the l
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 643 to abandon his burden and, as a recluse in the desert of his
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 660 mpt and failing glory hang by a doubtful thread, / by which pi
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 663 r learn about the recesses of a sheltered heart, / or render w
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 688 faithful, / disturbs them with a greater assault in their fina
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 699 t nobles sowed. / Even though a tempest should rise up with r
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 708 ho sought the golden stars on a flaming course / should approv
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 713 ith our own hands. / Nor does a man stand rightly venerable b
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 714 f the place where he is, / but a place stands venerable becaus
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 724 ntly over them all, / and sees a monk [Walhstod] exhausted by
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 733 ts healthy , / and he sends in a priest there so that Cuthbert
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 754 edom forever.’ / Then, using a torch as a beacon they reveal
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 766 our kinsmen / would falter by a well-worn thread of events, /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 776 to place them in the bosom of a delicate casket. / But, as th
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 794 f, / the other half is kept as a mark of a memorable miracle. /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 800 e in body. / The splendour of a lofty casket is placed above,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 801 ofty casket is placed above, / a work of immortal glory, conta
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 802 the holy martyr, which shine (a wonder!) with celestial mirac
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 807 e through the lifeless limbs. / A certain man brought the body
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 808 son, whom the blind wrath / of a demon was wearing down with f
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 813 shine more powerfully. / Then a certain man, horrified by the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 817 kes some mighty medicine from a small bit of rocky soil. / He
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 823 ther, consumed by the fire of a disease-bearing fever, / is ba
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 826 the kindly voice of so great a bishop release him from these
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 831 nd in medicinal power through a shared gift. / For when pain a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 833 were afflicting / the eyes of a certain man, he took up the h
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 837 ir function, / lay slack under a heavy affliction, and for who
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 846 orts his revitalized limbs on a crutch / and begins to pour fo
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 850 thanks / to the Thunderer for a gift from the stars. / Not even
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 876 onting them with weapons. / As a result, there long remains a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 878 e the holy man was nourishing a faithful ear / with celestial
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 883 replied and spoke to him with a few words in this way: / ‘D
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 889 nd, afflicted to his heart by a fearful trembling, / is ferven
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 899 so that Christ should also be a companion in his struggle / wi
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 907 was hiding squalidly alone in a rugged cell, / rather a broad
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 908 one in a rugged cell, / rather a broad flame rose from its inb
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 909 from its inborn kindling / and a burning wound passed over his
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 910 s. / And while he was putting a new roof on the old dwelling,
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 914 d in holy water / at the place a clear path had been opened up
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 915 p by the horn-handled knife, / a lively drop from the holy fon
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 920 hould think that I am telling a lie, / I will say with God as
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 921 God as my witness that it was a faithful priest who revealed
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 2 o where does confidence bring a mind mutilated by disbelievin
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 7 o that the clinging tongue of a righteous man might not blurt
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 10 earlier centuries, tricked by a deceitful illusion, / worshippe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 30 not rush into the work under a burden. / The land is surround
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 37 truggling under the shadows, / a lamp with flame-spewing rays
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 43 they were not surprised / that a fire had broken out. “How a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 46 ved to be presented with such a shrine. / With that torch the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 61 ung man quickly took arms, as a noble offspring of a noble li
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 63 hield. / Then, having received a pious commendation from the a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 70 time it happened that Cudda, a man of remarkable old age, / u
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 74 g himself to the direction of a regulated life. / With a holy l
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 75 ion of a regulated life. / With a holy love he took up the teac
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 79 h an equal love. / At that time a weighty burden had purified h
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 80 his heart, having burned for a long time with a customary de
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 90 oned queen, / wishing to bestow a favourable consolation, sent
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 94 st, after he had kept him for a tripartite year, / he sent him
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 95 additional companions, led by a certain man / whom the unculti
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 101 ipe has sung of miracles with a truthful plectrum. / However,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 102 strength of the innate Muse, a strength without mystery, / re
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 107 lling the dusky darkness with a pale torch. / After a swift ru
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 108 ess with a pale torch. / After a swift rumour had reached the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 110 m comfort. / He welcomed him as a guest, warmed him with feasts
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 116 of the community. / If perhaps a customary marriage is pleasin
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 117 ff: / I am handing over to you a young woman, a relative of mi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 119 / I am dedicating myself to be a father to you, and you to be
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 128 eding on the airy breezes for a little longer, / then I shall
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 137 had yearned to see / for such a long time; the spreading vein
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 152 of pious prayers. / He gained a teacher entirely to himself,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 161 / and poured out on him freely a generous portion of pleasant
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 175 e inflamed the young man, and a pleasant desire did not slow
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 176 slow him down, / to reveal by a pious token that which concea
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 179 wished to take up the mark of a life-giving crown. / The archbi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 183 forehand that he would go / in a different direction and would
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 184 At that time it happened that a devastating plague / was increa
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 188 s not for me to disclose such a great crime in verse. / She vi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 198 rrible conflict, / he received a companion, the one whom he ha
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 205 ful coasts opened to him with a fortunate journey. / At that ti
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 208 the decrees of the people by a common treaty. / They were bur
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 211 ed hiding-places. Soon after, a little rumour emerged among t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 212 the nobles / of the court that a man strong in virtue had arri
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 215 “Peace to this house”. In a selective manner he discourse
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 221 y earth, / seeking immediately a blessing from the mouth of th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 224 stock, property, / wealth, and a monastery, whose common name
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 229 om now on, / the grace of such a great man will provide the su
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 230 my speech. / During this time, a prelate was brought down from
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 235 / that it was advantageous for a person whom the marshy judgem
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 239 eadlong to the cross-roads of a perverse sect. / At last Aegilb
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 244 doctrines of salvation. / Then a plague arose and brought abou
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 246 hich had been broken apart in a two-pronged schism / were shak
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 250 ry, some groups of young men, / a throng of old men, and a prel
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 251 battle-lines stand, locked in a struggle with a doubtful end;
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 252 truggle with a doubtful end; / a public split arises over the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 254 which were going to fall with a sudden crash: / “We hold to a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 259 ething wicked.” He spoke / in a learned manner, describing th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 260 ecollecting the ceremonies of a bygone life. / But not with eq
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 264 ourned together, because with a blind authority / the brothers
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 267 the order of heroes, Wilfrid, a sower of the word clever in h
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 270 rroneous sect; / the speech of a foreign tongue was known to h
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 271 orator began his address amid a doubtful crowd: / “I remembe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 273 rs collectively put together / a clear pattern three times at
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 276 l motion returns to itself in a joined unity. / This is bindin
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 289 ved into tender grief. / After a little while, the gentle king
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 293 he kings of old have read for a long time? / What about Columb
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 295 he synod responded by raising a happy cry: / “Peter was give
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 313 ime of the green sap, / moving a thousand things in his mind:
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 315 ot rush over the precipice of a blasphemous cave / or avoid pur
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 323 stirs up my teaching through a fortunate fate: / first it is r
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 331 he way of my fleet, driven by a powerful storm.” / The noble
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 333 s permitted this. / Soon after, a royal fleet was prepared for
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 335 adrons of the Heaven-dweller. / A sailor made fast the symbols
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 340 / Meanwhile, the delegation of a gentle sailor appeared. / Bish
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 344 unded with blessed trumpets. / A twelvefold company stood ther
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 350 shining neck was adorned with a rose-coloured robe. / He was c
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 351 ured robe. / He was carried in a jewelled throne in the manner
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 367 t / of an unfortunate harbour, a savage race saw that their fa
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 376 swollen lips. / He invoked in a whisper the Eumenides, the Fu
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 382 these things were happening, a young man fitted out a sling
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 383 man fitted out a sling / with a small smooth stone and, whirl
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 388 d. / The battle-lines gave out a shout and rushed forward in a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 393 he victor was carried away by a calm sea, deprived of five ro
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 400 ituation. / For they decided by a perverse canon that Coedda, /
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 401 perverse canon that Coedda, / a man inclined to good morals a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 407 ee, snatched from him at such a critical moment, / did not ter
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 408 he symbols of power, taken in a great struggle, / nor did the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 410 ed in that hiding-place, with a better hope. / Although he was
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 412 st / was given to him, because a neighbouring settler was putt
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 414 ers, of whom one was Wulfar, / a man powerful throughout the k
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 416 r he deservedly acquired such a great teacher, / he honoured h
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 419 Kent feared, / while he lacked a shepherd, asked on bended kne
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 424 them to guard their lives in a private sanctuary. / In additio
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 429 years had been measured out, / a prelate of the shepherds was
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 430 he Ausonian shores, / Theodore, a cultivator of justice and pie
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 431 s man / had been uprooted from a see which had been granted to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 432 mon grief at the agreement of a law, which had then been brok
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 434 / installed him as shepherd in a see which had been vacant for
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 449 nclose the unkept arches with a glassy screen, / and that the p
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 454 or Christ, who confers glory. / A supreme love grew in the holy
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 458 e talk break it. / The Spirit, a co-worker with his mind, whic
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 460 was levelled in the shape of a cross with a ploughshare, / an
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 461 a ploughshare, / and he built a church, with its measurements
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 462 mb-line, / and dedicated it as a bed-chamber for Christ. / At l
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 463 r for Christ. / At last, after a few days and with everything
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 465 ing courtiers, ministers, and a diverse mass of the common pe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 472 ellished in remarkable ways: / a book, bound with twin covers
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 475 pleting all these things with a benevolent heart, / by Jesus
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 477 rished, worthily endowed with a deserved choir, / as once did
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 482 the word, Christ. I have said a little; / now let me be allowe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 487 was the highest lord: he was a shepherd, / nobly leading his
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 492 Son and the Holy Spirit, / as a father applying the anointing
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 493 / surrounded by the people in a beautiful circle. / Behold, am
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 494 mid the hordes, spread out in a dense throng, / a woman, full o
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 495 spread out in a dense throng, / a woman, full of fear, shunning
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 503 e raised. / Why do you despise a mother bereft of her only son
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 505 aith / with your deeds and give a pledge to your wretched foste
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 508 grief of the poor woman, / and a great lamentation arose. At l
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 525 for long: after these things, / a certain official brought the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 527 service. / This boy served as a gracious example to many. / At
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 536 one forth, joined together by a treaty of reconciliation. / Th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 537 one was envious and unveiled a thousand schemes / to try to b
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 538 to break the holy peace with a perverse schism. / The rebelli
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 542 s gracious wife was Edildrid, a famous virago, / who lived as
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 543 famous virago, / who lived as a most chaste virgin even after
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 548 with booty. / They laid waste a wide area, and the chains wer
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 549 hted in his great triumph for a long time. / It was not by arms
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 555 der withdrew and fled, and in a later time / he added northern
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 571 it was right for him to drink a whole cup of water. / He endur
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 574 ubjects into the narrow way. / A gathered crowd of leaders / mar
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 580 red. / Moreover, he established a temple after the land had bee
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 583 ormed again the assistance of a slow tongue, / and he conferre
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 587 heights of the fragile wall, / a brother fell down headfirst,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 589 his inner parts had received a terrible blow, his muscles wi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 605 ed the heart of the king with a devious wound. / The methods s
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 606 r hostility were putrid: like a talkative partridge, / she blam
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 607 lkative partridge, / she blamed a righteous man of having abuse
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 610 noblemen bowing with respect, a rich brood of young men, / and
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 618 h up till then had been under a single ruler. / The fortunate
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 634 d fortunate years, boys, / but a hostile fate will pay you bac
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 636 turning suns, / may you suffer a fate which is premature more
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 637 d he expressed the words from a sober palate. / The peoples gr
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 642 hings, he returned, / and with a happy heart he visited again
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 644 th soothing words. Meanwhile, a swift ship / was released from
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 654 en cunningly concealed within a pit / was the prelate Winfrid,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 656 that very snare, deceived by a single letter. / The breezes t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 663 rs on the briny cliffs. / Then a fitting progeny of the livest
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 665 rejoiced in solemnity. / After a little while, he granted the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 670 The boastful Efruin inscribed a written contract, / making not
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 692 salvation to the peoples. / In a trance I have played these th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 702 nce been delicate. / I boarded a shaky dinghy with a few rower
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 706 in my mind, let us keep such a great friend.” / The nobles
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 707 obles rejoiced; for it is not a light thing for a ruler / that
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 709 red him an excellent see with a vast purview; / he did not want
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 718 us man and comforted him with a pious love. / After a banquet,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 719 him with a pious love. / After a banquet, and after they had d
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 720 , / the king began to narrative a tale to the father, / who perc
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 724 bitter scars as I lived under a foreign king. / However, I was
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 725 protected by the Hun through a great treaty, / and in the end
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 727 lso they wanted to perpetrate a deception by bringing gifts,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 730 ing me because of his love of a steadfast pagan faith, / no le
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 731 / no less shall I cherish you. A trumpet sounded, and the read
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 737 to exclaim, “Hurrah!” / In a most worthy manner he knocked
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 739 dorning the apostolic reins, / a man pure in righteousness, a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 740 diviner of equity. / He issued a decree, gathering a fatherly
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 741 therly assembly: / he mustered a company of four dozen fathers
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 747 igh up the disaster caused by a sharp schism between brothers
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 759 his complaints. / He submitted a document, written with clarit
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 761 erns of his homeland / in such a way as to bring profit to the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 764 nner of suitors / had set upon a bride adorned for her own pat
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 767 rian court.” / It would take a long time to draw out everyth
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 777 sought to condemn the soul of a blessed man without cause. / Wh
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 779 rder that he might not, / like a vile apostate or a fugitive f
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 780 eparted from those regions by a level path. / A hostile friend
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 781 ose regions by a level path. / A hostile friend of the human o
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 782 tly, / out of spite, to defile a noble vow. For, as he hurried
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 791 him / with the filthy mouth of a bishop, saying, “Traitor to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 793 e Gallic sceptre / by restoring a tyrant, who has met a violent
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 798 ppened by the glowing fire of a lightning strike, / which appe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 801 out danger he quickly boarded a hollow ship made of alder-woo
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 809 throne / and dared to compose a cruel edict in response to th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 816 t of God was being branded as a slanderer. / Finally, they thr
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 817 , they thrust the father into a solitary cell. / He recalled t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 829 / obtained blessed crowns and a starry glory, gifts bestowed
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 831 hough our bodies are enduring a difficult lot, / our minds are
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 834 he soul will soon be reaped. / A person should not seek after
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 835 thus, and immediately after, a cruel and hungry body of offi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 836 ed him, and left him bound in a dark dungeon. / Shall I call yo
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 838 u rejoiced that you would be / a contender for Christ afterwar
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 840 you were being restrained by a filthy wall on all sides, / su
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 844 whet their two-edged swords. / A timely light poured from the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 846 ere staying awake, performing a vigil which was dear to Jesus
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 847 igil which was dear to Jesus. / A guard was present as witness
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 861 tolic religion. / At that time, a heavy torpor was oppressing t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 877 he blessed man. / Rather, with a keen expression he returned t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 881 cued was called Aebba. / After a little while, she rejoiced to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 884 of his own life / than destroy a righteous man for a cruel kin
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 899 mbled to be placed. / In quite a worthy manner the quivering c
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 900 ng through the cross-roads of a peace-making life. / Therefore
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 905 d, his joys were disrupted by a sudden disaster. / While the r
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 913 our limbs are being shaken by a terrible demon. / You despised
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 916 , you have taken caskets from a neck worthy of reverence: / no
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 930 igrant to the southern lands. / A noble traveller met the exile
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 934 wald, / who was descended from a royal line and was endowed wi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 935 s not hidden, and immediately a hostile rage was ignited. / Bu
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 939 fast the heart of the leader, a fitting host, / the brother Edi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 941 he Mercian kingdoms, / who had a hateful wife in his service,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 944 h much terror, / and they used a wicked scheme to compel / the p
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 948 of another king, / he endured a woman’s wrath, which had be
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 950 urg, who, / as the Muse sang in a melody set forth earlier, / fu
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 957 prelate will gain for himself a homeland, one which does not
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 961 heart. / Therefore, there was a certain people, set upon rock
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 978 preparations for establishing a monastery there. / The chief i
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 987 to be fed by an exile. / After a little while, you obtained th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 989 ge now gleamed, / encircled by a crown, through the help of th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 992 her, an exile for the sake of a peace treaty. / Then the news e
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 993 columns of men had fallen in a bloody battle, / with both sid
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 996 ased to drive the saints into a wicked exile. / Moreover, the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1013 r sins forgiven in turn / from a perfect heart, they rejoiced,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1027 are enjoying / the best life by a common wish: often, I confess
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1028 o, heed the final requests of a shepherd, / in order that your
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1042 oples which had acquired such a great shepherd! / However, the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1044 ef period of five years, / for a trifling matter grew and flou
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1053 illation meant that he lacked a fixed position. / But the fath
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1064 been able to overcome through a troublesome flight. / Finally,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1065 troublesome flight. / Finally, a collective synod was set up b
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1068 ere willingly; then there was a fierce quarrel between the br
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1079 in their minds. / Furthermore, a young man who supported the h
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1091 ing the sacred offices. / What a company of bad advisers! What
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1101 t were, / chatter foolishly by a false thumb, and, hostile to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1109 he leader the contrivances of a malicious crime. / He confirmed
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1119 asant to listen to? / But with a righteous winnowing-fork the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1125 t led to Rome, / and he boarded a ship he had acquired with man
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1129 aithful companions drink from a divine spring / (I am not allow
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1130 ing / (I am not allowed to make a mistake, and I must not decei
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1131 , / and the rich grace of such a great leader protected them.
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1135 d, / there shall remain for him a righteous crop of eternal lif
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1136 / At last, when they had made a favourable passage through th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1144 his knee bent and poured out / a thousand pious drops of water
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1154 gs with slow feet. / Meanwhile, a pointless delegation / from the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1160 eatise shone. / He entered like a ray of the sun, and, like the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1161 an intense ray, / he presented a document with the lucidity of
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1172 pursue me with their minds in a terrible frenzy, they know / w
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1173 of any infractions caused by a fault of mine; / I shall be sh
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1175 hed these precious walls with a grandiose bridle, / nor on a d
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1176 h a grandiose bridle, / nor on a dun pony with an adorned sadd
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1179 s should remain in force / for a friendly posterity, and do no
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1184 lerate the swaddling-bands of a fleeting life, and the enviou
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1188 ed, and even though it is / by a natural and understandable ha
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1197 id people who are raging with a gloomy sadness are acting foo
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1199 to condemn Wilfrid, / who, like a snatched firebrand, remains u
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1213 -five years’ service / with a malicious pronouncement? / In a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1215 ards he has been inscribed on a white tablet because of his l
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1224 head, and said, / “Return as a peacemaker; restore joy to yo
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1232 l his limbs were tormented by a bitter illness, / and he was n
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1234 . / At first he was carried by a horse, and afterwards by the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1236 carried the beloved burden to a walled city. / They duly place
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1243 y were breathing the light of a fifth sun, / there was sent fr
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1245 terious Michael, radiant with a shining face. / The father loo
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1247 venerating him as Stilbon, as a new star, as a friend. / “Fe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1252 ears, / I will recall you with a worthy reward; / but strive to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1253 reward; / but strive to build a church worthy of Mary the mot
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1260 e you shunned the delights of a deceitful age, / with the comp
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1268 the Muse has already unfolded a narrative, / and he returned a
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1270 in turn. / Then, not harmed by a delay, he quickly sent Peter
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1275 speech. / Therefore he suffered a deserved and premature danger
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1277 had lazily despised for such a long time. He was thinking / m
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1283 er, having been driven out by a violent citizen. / To undertake
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1284 e the care of his homeland in a proper manner, / he engaged the
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1286 d Alhtfrid as his assistant. / A righteous and dignified man,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1292 nations were strengthened by a peace treaty. / From that time,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1297 d qualities. / He travelled as a shepherd through the regions
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1298 the regions before him; / like a mother he nurtured those who
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1299 ilk of instruction, / and like a father he became angry toward
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1303 meet him. / He collapsed, and a sudden illness obstructed his
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1305 ble common people gathered in a complete circle. / A terrible
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1306 thered in a complete circle. / A terrible fear arose that he m
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1310 what great sweat he obtained a shrine that was not his own;
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1312 e, / with its nine voices, with a melodious song, and I were to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1315 ew out some words. / Those whom a demon had possessed with a fr
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1317 whose limbs had been bound by a dark infirmity, either depriv
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1318 sight, or condemning them to a muttering of the tongue, / or
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1321 who were being / eaten away by a wasting disease. As a brother
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1322 a member of the flock, / and as a father he was the hinderer of
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1334 monks, who were blessed with a rich endowment of virtues, ra
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1335 rounded the great shepherd in a dense throng. / Encircled by t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1354 e stretched out his limbs for a hard rest. / Accordingly, as Mi
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1356 d man / hid the lordly body in a wicker box / and fittingly dra
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1360 ad buried the sacred limbs in a sacred tomb, / the venerable b
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1362 hers took his vestments, / and a boy seized the undergarment,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1366 was adorned / by her chastity. A bed-ridden woman, who had los
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1382 ng towards high heaven. / Then a gleaming arc flashed across t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1387 mly established forever, with a secure harvest / of grapes, by
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1391 hite sheets (canis), / just as a honey-bearing foreigner sang
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1392 ng the strange teachings with a feeble plectrum. / Now, anoint
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1394 ow related the old lineage of a close. / The page does not occu
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1395 y the attention, and it fears a trance. / Greetings, reader: u
N.MiraculaNyniae 8 d the splendid consolation of a salvific life. / Many lights h
N.MiraculaNyniae 12 th the divine Spirit, / sang in a lyrical song, ‘The Lord has
N.MiraculaNyniae 17 y for his ages. / One of them, a brilliant teacher, shone fort
N.MiraculaNyniae 23 ving hearts / to Christ, while a massive crowd was gathering, /
N.MiraculaNyniae 31 sea / and boarded the bowels of a wide-curved craft, / and the s
N.MiraculaNyniae 53 mely so that he might shineas a lamp of the sacred house / and
N.MiraculaNyniae 65 rules to the peoples, / and as a teacher pious everywhere, acq
N.MiraculaNyniae 87 brightness on every age like a star. / This venerable house g
N.MiraculaNyniae 90 ished it with brick walls and a lofty roof, / consecrated it t
N.MiraculaNyniae 95 e, / receive the ready gifts of a restoring cure, / and grow str
N.MiraculaNyniae 98 an widely among peoples, with a bright garland; / as his splen
N.MiraculaNyniae 106 illustrious sheepfold, / like a splendid column stood over hi
N.MiraculaNyniae 116 d remained blind, but not for a long time. / Immediately the k
N.MiraculaNyniae 118 his evil deeds, / he addressed a servant, “Take care to visi
N.MiraculaNyniae 125 ant of and beseeched him with a groan, / “O, I confess, my d
N.MiraculaNyniae 132 the messenger was filled with a flood of tears / and, fearfuly
N.MiraculaNyniae 144 mediately his right hand made a sign on the head of the recu
N.MiraculaNyniae 150 through the saint. / Meanwhile, a priest was performing the fun
N.MiraculaNyniae 151 function of a baptist, / when a mindless frenzy assailed him
N.MiraculaNyniae 160 there had been produced / from a mother’s womb on the previ
N.MiraculaNyniae 168 d only lived for the space of a single night, as I said befor
N.MiraculaNyniae 177 rriage, / but the priest, with a pure mind, remains chaste in
N.MiraculaNyniae 180 ing his throat was bound with a silent knot. / Seeing this, th
N.MiraculaNyniae 191 ns were missing. / He spoke to a certain man as follows, “Ru
N.MiraculaNyniae 212 while he was staying beneath a neighbour’s beams in body,
N.MiraculaNyniae 218 , / who stupidly wanted to rob a man chaste in his merits, / ra
N.MiraculaNyniae 222 wise with foul madness / until a bull came forward, with a mig
N.MiraculaNyniae 225 and tossing their entrails in a violent assault, / until one o
N.MiraculaNyniae 252 eansing swelling leprosy from a scaly body, / and even curing
N.MiraculaNyniae 270 was immediately surrounded by a brilliant host / and, shining
N.MiraculaNyniae 271 illiant host / and, shining in a snowy covering like the morni
N.MiraculaNyniae 282 here I shall begin to sing in a brief account what needs to b
N.MiraculaNyniae 285 al the miracles of the saint. / A certain man of the people pro
N.MiraculaNyniae 286 med in his whole flesh, whom a mighty mass / of diseases held
N.MiraculaNyniae 288 companying him could not take a step, / or run on feet that we
N.MiraculaNyniae 301 ieved, they wept, speaking in a murmur, / “O God’s beloved
N.MiraculaNyniae 310 closed the temple doors with a creaking bolt. / After these t
N.MiraculaNyniae 313 t in the middle of the night, a light shone / on the place whe
N.MiraculaNyniae 316 sight of the prophet, now in a snowy covering, entering / and
N.MiraculaNyniae 323 he was tonsured and lived for a long time / within our walls, c
N.MiraculaNyniae 325 the name Pethgils. / Meanwhile, a man no less damaged in his wh
N.MiraculaNyniae 329 veneration, and he prayed as a suppliant as follows: / “Beho
N.MiraculaNyniae 338 ts the ghastly limbs, / and by a new gift the old appearance r
N.MiraculaNyniae 341 velled at the gift of health. / A woman came who had been blind
N.MiraculaNyniae 343 seeped into her eyes and for a long time had prevented her /
N.MiraculaNyniae 346 s. / After being afflicted for a long time, her parents finall
N.MiraculaNyniae 375 ble name Plecgils, / cultivated a favoured life with righteous
N.MiraculaNyniae 378 ed man rested in the bosom of a tomb. / From the beginning of
N.MiraculaNyniae 385 ffered gifts to the Lord with a calm heart, / venerating filled
N.MiraculaNyniae 388 of the Eucharist to God with a chaste heart, / and on many da
N.MiraculaNyniae 396 ather he was asking this from a pious desire to see in bodily
N.MiraculaNyniae 399 ove the stars of the sky. / So a day arrived, on which he ente
N.MiraculaNyniae 400 he lofty temple, / and stood as a suppliant in prayer at the al
N.MiraculaNyniae 405 ant on his knees, drenched in a stream of tears, / but even, o
N.MiraculaNyniae 412 r’s bosom: / they saw him as a boy, filling the cattle-stall
N.MiraculaNyniae 413 illing the cattle-stall / with a thin voice, the one who turns
N.MiraculaNyniae 422 he stars of heaven. Gaze with a steady heart on the Thunderer
N.MiraculaNyniae 443 e-eminent table. / Again, with a scared heart, he pressed hims
N.MiraculaNyniae 467 but I shall begin to report / a few of the saint’s deeds, o
N.MiraculaNyniae 477 emely sweet draughts. / He was a father to orphans and a kindl
N.MiraculaNyniae 478 o widows; / to the poor he was a portion of the present life,
N.MiraculaNyniae 481 t love by the good. / This was a blessed man, and he never har
N.MiraculaNyniae 484 ng to despise anyone. / He was a man worthy of the lord, thric
N.MiraculaNyniae 486 did in the virtue of Christ, / a worthy confessor in the world
N.MiraculaNyniae 489 ightest torch in the sky. / In a cave of dreadful night, he, w
N.MiraculaNyniae 490 itate on heavenly wisdom with a focused mind; / often he obser
N.MiraculaNyniae 491 often he observed the road of a teacher, giving out the gifts
N.MiraculaNyniae 502 and peoples, man so good with a teacher’s mouth, / he happil
N.Nyniae.Hymn 11 in disappears from the world. / A blossoming mother, fertile wi
N.Nyniae.Hymn 23 sing the lights of the heart. / A gentle father in the world, h
N.Nyniae.Hymn 24 he holds the covenants fast, a gentle father in the world. / O
N.Nyniae.Hymn 25 / Our glory in the world, from a scaly body he cleanses lepros
N.Nyniae.Hymn 33 lessed kingdoms, who lived in a chaste manner / here in th
N.Nyniae.Hymn 45 serpent groans in the world. / A penalty remains prepared, pil
N.Nyniae.Hymn 46 ich the wretched ones return; a penalty remains prepared. / The