Charlemagne, Roland, and Oliver were no more. Indra fights with the hideous serpent Ahi, or Vrita, who keeps guard over the fountain of rains. These worms can only live in fire, and they build cocoons like silk-worms, which are unwound by the ladies of our palace, and spun into cloth and dresses, which are worn by our Exaltedness. And men seyn, that that welle comethe out of Paradys: and therefore it is so vertuous.. Then the spirits of the flood vow his destruction, and send Undine on earth to embrace her faithless lord, and kiss him to death. What these white vapours were, the ancient Aryans could not understand; therefore, because they bore a more or less remote resemblance to swans floating on blue waters, they supposed them to be divine beings partaking of the nature and appearance of these beautiful birds. Good night and joy be with you all One of the predictions attributed to Taliesin holds out to the Britons the hope that the Kingdom of Logres (England) shall perish before the bleeding lance and five centuries later, Chretien de Troyes quotes this saying, Il est ecrit quil est une heure,Ou tout le royaume de Logres,Qui jadis fut la terre es Ogres,Sera detruit par cette lance., The first to adapt the druidic mystery to Christianity was a British hermit, who wrote a Latin legend on the subject. I followed him. A man with a violin came once to Brandenburg, and walked through the town fiddling. In 1387, Jean dArras, secretary to the Duke of Berry, received orders from his master to collect all information attainable with reference to Melusina, probably for the entertainment of the sister of the duke, the Countess de Bar. Hinc prostratoSummo hc eligitur: sexu exaltatoQuandoque negligitur. Then the king and all his people, twenty thousand men, without counting women and children, were baptized, and George smote off the head of the monster. Then up came a mermaid, and whispered to Maurice of the charms of the land beneath the sea, and the blind piper danced after her into the salt sea, followed by the fish, and was never seen more. Come, heavnly wind, and blowA prosprous gale of grace,To waft from all belowTo heavn, my destined place:There in full sail my port Ill find,And leave the world and sin behind., Or I might quote a poem on The Last Voyage, from the Lyra Messianica, which one would have supposed to have been founded on the Gaelic legend told by Macpherson:. Sometimes they descend to earth, and become the wives of mortals; but soon their celestial nature re-asserts itself, and they expand their luminous wings, and soar away into the heavenly deeps of tranquil azure. Thence they proceeded to a place called Senes, and finding a beautiful valley, they dismounted to repose. They were accused before Decius, and they confessed themselves to be Christians. Shall we meet in that blest harbour,When our stormy voyage is oer?Shall we meet and cast the anchorBy the fair celestial shore? At last she began to shrink from incurring more expense, but the laborers had implicit faith; andbegged to be allowed to persevere. three days after he had gone, Urban discovered that his pastoral staff had put forth buds, and had burst into flower. 9), they employ(Greek)So, too, in the Book of Wisdom (xi. Having thus received hisimpression, Aymar left the cellar, and, guided by his rod, or rather by an internal instinct, he ascended into the shop, and then stepping into the street, he followed from one to another, like a hound upon the scent, the track of the murderers. what life has done to me!Then his smooth, unfurrowed foreheadKissed that ancient withered crone;And the Death which had dividedNow united them in one. But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.[2], There can, I think, be no doubt in the mind of an unprejudiced person that the words of our Lord do imply that some one or more of those then living should not die till He came again. According to an Arabic legend, St. George thrice rose from his grave, and was thrice slain. She listened with attention, and at the conclusion of his story, recommended him to remount his horse, and gallop out of the forest, and return to Poictiers, as though unconscious of what had taken place. This difficulty is therefore trifling, and what follows removes all shadow of doubt. But another magical harp-that is, the spring breeze restores all to vigour. It was reported at this time that a Jew of the time of Christ was wandering without food and drink, having for a thousand and odd years been a vagabond and outcast, condemned by God to rove, because he, of that generation of vipers, was the first to cry out for the crucifixion of Christ and the release of Barabbas; and also because soon after, when Christ, panting under the burden of the rood, sought to rest before his workshop (he was a cobbler), the fellow ordered Him off with acerbity. The handled cross was certainly a sacred symbol among the Babylonians. He tells also of Sridatta, who beheld one bathing in the Ganges, and, plunging after her, found himself in a wondrous land beneath the water, in the company of the beloved[193]. determined to convert these wild hordes of barbarians, and subject them to the cross of Christ; he therefore sent among them a number of Dominican and Franciscan missioners, and embassies of peace passed between the Pope, the King of France, and the Mogul Khan. Then I asked if they knew where they were in their sleep, and what sort of dreams they had had; he answered that they had been oppressed with many fancies and wonderful dreams, different from those they were accustomed to in their chambers; and in the morning when they went out, in a short while they had clean forgotten their dreams and visions; wherefore he concluded that the whole matter was fancy.. The most ordinary use consisted in taking a forked stick in such a manner that the palms were turned upwards, and the fingers closed upon the branching arms of the rod. And right so he saw come in a light that he might wel see a speare great and long which come straight upon him pointlong. This she dropped on the glass, and by the power of the worm, the glass was shivered, and the young flew away after their mother. It was erected on Montsalvatsch, of precious stones, gold, and aloe-wood. Then Joseph started with the vessel and the blood, or the Sangreal, for Britain. According to Vetranius Maurus, Varro left a satire on the Virgula divina, which has not been preserved. [136] Id. Leo IV. Another cylinder in the same Cabinet represents three personages. And all this he relates without smiling, or levity of conversation, as one who is well practised in sorrow and the fear of God, always looking forward with dread to the coming of Jesus Christ, lest at the Last Judgment he should find him in anger whom, when on his way to death, he had provoked to just vengeance. Hanover, 1843, P-114. What right have you to ask that question? demanded Don Fernando fiecely. Then he dashed the heart to the ground, and the last of the seven brothers died. As his office was hereditary, he was permitted to marry. Joseph of Arimathasa collected the blood in the vessel from which the Saviour had eaten the last supper. None have crossed this sea; it lacks water altogether, yet fish are cast up upon the beach of various kinds, very tasty, and the like are nowhere else to be seen. Now, I find in Russia precisely the same story told, with just the same appearance of truth, of a Czar Piras. The conquests of Tschengis-Khan again attracted the eyes of Christian Europe to the East. It has been assumed by some, that a restoration of the pressure will bring the stem up again, pointing towards the operator, and a little further pressure will elevate it into a perpendicular position. With two vessels he put out to sea and steered for the Canariesin those days the regions of nautical discovery and romance, and the outposts of the known world; for as yet Columbus had not crossed the ocean. Irish woman Sarah Gordon has performed a shiver-inducing cover of The Parting Glass. Accordingly, the poor starving wretches assembled at his door, and were ordered by him to dig a large pit in his tun, or home meadow. The rats, as animals loving darkness, may have been regarded as symbols of night, and Apollo driving them from the land may have typified the sun scattering darkness. Tender and distant, as though a thousand harp-strings were set a-quivering by the most delicate fingers, it rose up the scale by fractions of tones, and then descended again. In the following year he was besieging Calais. After Christs death, when the Catholic faith gained ground, this Cartaphilus was baptized by Ananias (who also baptized the Apostle Paul), and was called Joseph. It is probable that the foundation of the whole Prester-John myth lay in the report which reached Europe of the wonderful successes of Nestorianism in the East, and there seems reason to believe that the famous letter given above was a Nestorian fabrication. And the same is told of Baldur. Commodianus wrote Carmen Apologeticum adversus Gentes, which has been published by Dom Pitra in his Spicilegium Solesmense, with an introduction containing Jewish and Christian traditions relating to Antichrist. He transformed himself into a hare; then she took the form of a hound. At length he resolved on a solemn fast of forty days. Seth beheld the roots of the tree in Hell. [162] Plutarch, Crass, c. 17. probably followed Sophronius, who wrote a book on the destruction of the Serapium, and locate the event in Alexandria[84]. p. 447. As soon as we arrive at Reformation times, the German and French Protestants fasten on the story with the utmost avidity, and add sweet little touches of their own, and draw conclusions galling enough to the Roman See, illustrating their accounts with wood engravings vigorous and graphic, but hardly decent. After the service he wasquestioned, and he related his story. It seems to me probable that this head, if there were truth in the charge, was revered because it was part of an ancient druidic rite to produce a head upon a vessel, though for what purposes we do not know. The translation below lends itself to an interpretation Radulphus Highden, in the thirteenth century, relying on the authority of St. He asked: My love, what ails thee?, She replied: The Duchess of Cleves has wounded me.. That all thus recovered will be in a corrupted form I am well aware, but a practised eye will be able to restore what is disintegrated, and will know to detect antiquity, though disguised under the newest robe. Sultan overhears the conversation, and complains bitterly to the wolf, who suggests an ingenious plan by which the master may be induced to spare his dog. The valleys were open and free to the ocean; trees loaded with leaves, which scarcely waved to the light breeze, were scattered on the green declivities and rising ground; all was calm and bright; the pure sun of autumn shone from his blue sky on the fields; he hastened not to the west for repose, nor was he seen to rise in the east, but hung as a golden lamp, ever illumining the Fortunate Isle. In number they are forty, and yet they run together into one; so that at one time there is but a single swan-woman, at another the sky is dark with their numerous wings; a description which makes it easy to identify them with clouds.