It occurs as a predella painting among the specimens of early art in the Academia delle Belle Arti at Venice, and is the subject of a picture by Beham in the Munich Gallery[103]. Salvius consented; and casting aside his bow and arrow, entered the castle. George revives the dead cow of the peasant Glycerius; the same story is told of Abbot William of Villiers, of S. Germanus, of S. Garmon, and of S. Mochua. In the tale of George there is another indication of the absorption into it of a foreign myth. Sir Walter Raleigh, in his prison, was composing the second volume of his History of the World. Then fill to me the parting glass Another Icelander brought away two children from Vinland, and they related that near their home was a land, where people walked about in flowing white robes, singing processional psalms. They (the contemporaries of Yan-bushadh) tell that the idols in the land of Babel bewailed Yanbushadh singly in all their temples a whole night long till morning. Then all the water-spirits vowed revenge at the insult offered to one of their race; they stirred up war between the Ottawas and Andirondacks, which led to the extermination of the latter; one only was rescued, and he was grasped by the fish-wife, and by her borne down to the watery depths below the Falls of S. Anthony. Philip started on his embassy, but never returned. Then the cauldron burst and extinguished the fire. In this version, also, Eindridi is prepared to revenge himself on the king, should the child be injured. They scourge themselves into action with a sword, lap the blood of the slain, and fly gorged with blood for forty years. 1602, to be only found in two MS. copies. It seems, then, that the fight with the dragon is a myth common to all Aryan peoples. Thus Herodotus tells us how that at Memphis the death of the sacred bull was a cause of general wailing, and its discovery one of exultation. Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you? Each time that he played a tune a maiden died. Before speaking of these strange tales which produced such an effect on the minds of men in the middle ages, it will be well briefly to examine the opinions of divines of the early ages on the passages of Scripture connected with the coming of the last great persecutor of the Church. His death a subject of wailing. According to him, however, the king shoots the apple from the head of a beloved page, and the lad dies from sheer fright, though the arrow does not even graze his skin. 1647, fol., with three maps, is interesting as containing documentary evidence; but it is disfigured by the superstition of the writer. This is the same story as that of Polyidus and Glaucus. The following hymn is from the collection of the Sunday School Union, and is founded on this venerable Druidic tenet:. And in our time, in the reign of Pope Alexander III., when I was a boy, there was found at Rome, a vial full of milky liquid, which, when sprinkled on any kinds of stone, made them receive such sculpture as the hand of the graver was wont to execute. The lady who sat by the bedside of Mr. Bunworth went into the adjoining room, where sat some male relatives, and asked, in a tone of alarm, if they had heard the Banshee. [22] Ludolfi Hist. Richard added that a Sicilian princess, Gerasina, had accompanied the pilgrims, together with her four daughters and baby son; also that an empress of the Eastern empire, Constantia by name, had suffered with them. Civilizing gods, who diffuse intelligence and instruct barbarians, are also solar deities, as the Egyptian Osiris, the Nabathaean Tammuz, the Greek Apollo, and the Mexican Quetzalcoatl; beside these Oannes takes his place, as the sun-god, giving knowledge and civilization. A great hero, and prophet; is cruelly put to death several times, but revives after each martyrdom. Siguenza speaks of an Indian cross which was found in the cave of Mixteca Baja. I counted from thirty to thirty-five revolutions in a minute, and afterwards as many as eighty. S. Gertrude is regarded as the patroness of fleeting souls, the saint who is the first to shelter the spirits when they begin their wandering. Years after, a native of the same island, Gudlief by name, was trading between Iceland and Dublin, when, somewhere about the year 1000, he was caught by a furious gale from the east, and driven further in the western seas than he had ever visited before. But especially was it seen in the passage of Ezekiel (ix. With this Portuguese legend, which has been charmingly told by Washington Irving, must be compared the adventures of Porsenna, king of Russia, in the sixth volume of Dodsleys Poetical Collection. Porsenna was carried off by Zephyr to a distant region, where the scenery was enchanting, the flowers ever in bloom, and creation put on her fairest guise. The wild beast of the forest and the timid deer hearkened, the little worms crept forth in the green meadows, fishes swam up to listen, each forgetting its nature, so long as he chanted his song. On reading this, we are reminded of that sweet German legend, so gracefully rendered by Longfellow, wherein the parts are changed, and it is no more the birds listening to the song of man, but proud man, with finger on lip and bated breath, listening to the matchless warble of the bird. But what is the bird which bears schamir, the worm or stone which shatters rocks? And the same is told of Baldur. I followed him. He heard people using our Lords name, and he was the more perplexed. He says that there are seven names by which this rod is known, and to itsexcellences under each title he devotes a chapter of his book. Curiously enough, the same confusion between Britain and Avalon, which was made by Procopius, is still made by the German peasantry, who have their Engel-land which, through a similarity of name, they identify with England, to which they say, the souls of the dead are transported. No sooner did Lohengrin behold this, than he exclaimed: Take back the horse to its stable; I will go with the bird whither it shall lead!. He then soon made them understand that it was he whohad killed their comrade, but they could not learn from him any cause for this conduct. In that most charming collection of fairy tales, made in Southern Ireland by Mr. Crofton Croker, we meet with the same wonderful tune; but the fable relating to it has suffered in the telling, and the parts have been inverted. 25. Take this stone and give it to Alexander,and say to him, From this stone learn what you must think of yourself. Now, this stone was of great value and excessively heavy, outweighing and excelling in value all other gems; but when reduced to powder, it was as light as a tuft of hay, and as worthless. Follow my blackened traces, and they will conduct you to the gate whence I was expelled. Seth hastened to Paradise. As in the sacred symbol of the Church each member predicates that which is to follow, and is a logical consequence of that which goes before, so that the excision of one article would destroy the completeness, and dissolve the unity of the faithso, with the sacred beliefs of antiquity, one myth is linked to another, and cannot be detached without breaking into and destroying the harmony of the charmed circle. The man, not supposing that she would carry her threat into execution, declined, alleging that he was in bed, and the night was chilly; besideswhich he entirely disclaimed all acquaintance with the lady who claimed admittance. The huntsmen report this to the king, and the monarch hastens to the scene, and offers to buy the wondrous book. The magistrates were now so far satisfied as to agree that Jacques Aymar should be authorized to follow the trail of the murderers, and have a company of archers to follow him. In the early part of the thirteenth century there existed a military order under the protection of S. George at Genoa, and in 1201 an order was founded in Aragon, with the title of knights of S. George of Alfama. Wessel, tom. In reward for this act of self-sacrifice, Indracarried the hare to heaven, and placed him in the moon.[35]. Where is the Emperor Decius gone to?, The bishop answered, My son, there is no emperor of that name; he who was thus called died long ago., Malchus replied, All I hear perplexes me more and more. When in the same quarry these two epochs are found, the remains of the second age are always superposed over those of the bronze age. Three years after the witch sought them out, and cast over them dresses of fur with the hair turned outward, whereupon they recovered their human forms, but, unfortunately, the dress cast over the bridegroom was too scanty, and did not extend over his tail, so that, when he was restored to his former condition, he retained his lupine caudal appendage, and this became hereditary in hisfamily; so that all Poles with tails are lineal descendants of the ancestor to whom this little misfortune happened. The third year comes a plague of rats. Nestorius, a priest of Antioch and a disciple of St. Chrysostom, was elevated by the emperor to the patriarchate of Constantinople,and in the year 428 began to propagate his heresy, denying the hypostatic union. He was a monkof St. Martin of Cologne, then of Fulda, and lastly of St. Albans, at Metz. But S. Cunibert (d. 663) is related, in a legend of the ninth century, to have been celebrating in the church of the Blessed Virgins, when a white dove appeared, and indicated the spot where lay the relics of one of the martyrs: these were, of course at once exhumed. shippd intill the land,As if I had never been such.. and the watchers are charmed into letting her steal away the children, as Hermes stole ,Io from Argus, and she revives them with the water of life, which is the dew[134]. Before his eyes lay the Isle of the Departed basking in golden light. I spent it in good company. I wait for this Lord, who is the Fountain of Happiness, and in obedience to hiscommand I dwell behind yon mountain. When Fadhilah heard these words, he asked when the Lord Jesus would appear; and the old man replied that his appearing would be at the end of the world, at the Last Judgment. Inspiring the Wake Set. The girl had strong faith in it beforea faith coupled with fear; and as long as that faith was strong in her, the rodmoved; now she believed that the faculty was taken from her; and the power ceased with the loss of her faith. In the Smintheion of Hamaxitus, white mice were fed as a solemn rite, and had their holes under the altar; and near the tripod of Apollo was a representation of one of these animals[152]. 192 sq.). De Legende, vn hystorie der XI dusent jon-feren, s. 1. et a. (circ. In the twelfth century it seems to have localized itself about the Lower Rhine. The husband of Leda was Tyndareos, a name which identifies him with the thunderer, and he is therefore the same as Zeus. Maries translation is in three thousand verses; Legrand dAussy has given the analysis of it in his Fabliaux, tom. 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. They had all of them tails forty centimetres long, and from two to three in diameter. The falcon, perceiving the danger, fluttered with his wings till he awoke the dog, who instantly attacked the invader, and after a fierceconflict, in which he was sorely wounded, killed him. Tzetze relates that on the ocean coast, opposite Britannia, live fishermen subject to the Franks, but freed from paying tribute, on account of their occupation, which consists in rowing souls across to the opposite coast[180]. They cut a rod off some fruit-tree into bits, and after having distinguished them by various marks, they cast theminto a white cloth. 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. [9], Exact lyrics vary between arrangements, but they include most, if not all, of the following stanzas appearing in different orders:[citation needed][10][11], Of all the money that e'er I had [107] Collin de Plancy: Legendes de lAncien Test. That was all; not another word about him. As late as 1600, a German writer would illustrate a thunder-storm destroying a crop of corn by a picture of a dragon devouring the produce of the field with his flaming tongue and iron teeth (Wolfii Memorabil. Although it currently seems that Scotland has evidence of the earliest published melody and several beautiful song variants, the popular Parting Glass currently in circulation has strong Irish and North American influences to thank. One of the murderers was within, he declared; he would track the others afterwards. The first notice of its general use among late writers is in the Testamentum Novum, lib. It will be seen by the curious woodcut reproduced as frontispiece from Baptista Mantuanus, that he consigned Pope Joan to the jaws of hell, notwithstanding her choice. Metaphrastus alludes to it as well; in the tenth century Eutychius inserted it in his annals of Arabia; it is found in the Coptic and the Maronite books, and several early historians, as Paulus Diaconus, Nicephorus, &c., have inserted it in their works. Thus in an ancient Breton ballad Tina passes through the lake of pain, on which float the dead, white robed, in little boats. In what way he learned it is not known. Tell, I pray thee, whence the gloomy spotsUpon this body, which below on earthGive rise to talk of Cain in fabling quaint?, Chaucer, in the Testament of Cresside, adverts to the man in the moon, and attributes to him the same idea of theft. They agree to the terms, leaving the choice to Wieland, who selects Angelburga, whom he had long loved without having seen. John-dories came tripping;Dull hake by their skippingTo frisk it seemd given;Bright mackrel came springing,Like small rainbows wingingTheir flight up to heaven;The whiting and haddockLeft salt-water paddockThis dance to be put in,Where skate with flat facesEdged out some odd plaices;But soles kept their footing.. VIII. In these pages and elsewhere I have shown how some of the ancient myths related by the whole Aryan family of nations are reducible to allegorical explanations of certain well-known natural phenomena; but I must protest against the manner in which our German friends fasten rapaciously upon every atom of history, sacred and profane, and demonstrate all heroes to represent the sun; all villains to be the demons of night or winter; all sticks and spears and arrows to be the lightning; all cows and sheep and dragons and swans to be clouds. To both questions she replied in the affirmative; then they went away. It occurs in the Seven Wise Masters, and in the Calumnia Novercalis as well, so that it must have been popular throughout medival Europe. Alas it was to none but me Again, his chronicle has suffered severely from interpolations in numerous places, and there is reason to believe that the Pope-Joan passage is itself a late interpolation. 4806). in Hieronym. Angelique Cottin was a poor girl, highly charged with electricity. ii. Thereupon the elephant poked his proboscis into the water, and muttered a fervent prayer. Now, at break of day, the swan reappeared on the river, drawing the little shallop. When in the realm of gloom perpetual, the Finn demi-god struck his kantele, and sent all the inhabitants of Pohjola to sleep; as Hermes, when about to steal Io, made the eyes of Argus close at the sound of his lyre. It follows the commonly-received opinion which identified Paradise with Ceylon; and, indeed, an earlier Icelandic work, the Rymbegla, indicates the locality of the terrestrial Paradise as being near India, for it speaks of the Ganges as taking its rise in the mountains of Eden. The animals, then also swimming close to the ship, landed first. We must have a keener contest, said the king, taking an arrow and flushing with anger; then he laid the arrow on the string and drew his bow to the farthest, so that the horns were nearly brought to meet. Then he listened; and heard a voice which sung so sweetly that it seemed none earthly thing, and him thought that the voice said, Joy and honour be to the Father of heaven. Then Sir Launcelot kneeled downe before the chamber, for well he wist that there was the Sancgreall in that chamber. Thus Suidas uses the expression, (Greek) and Theodotion calls the sharp stone used by Zipporah in circumcising her son, (Greek). [94] De Mortillet, Le signe de la Croix avant le Christianisme. She lived there in the midst of her numerous troop of damsels, to assist the laborious farmer and bless faithful lovers, or to allure to herself those souls which still clung to the ancient faith. This Albericus relates that in the year 1165 Presbyter Joannes, the Indian king, sent hiswonderful letter to various Christian princes, and especially to Manuel of Constantinople, and Frederic the Roman Emperor. Similar letters were sent to Alexander III., to Louis VII. And Turkes holden now alle that place and the citee and the Chirche. Apparent exceptions, such as the Fauns, are not so in reality, when subjected to close scrutiny. Proud men were wrapped in flame, slanderers had their eyes plucked out by Hells ravens. A peasant, taken at haphazard from the street, was brought to the sorcerer as one suspected. Hromund found him seated on a throne in full armour, girded with his sword, crowned, and with his feet resting on three boxes containing silver. The supposed officer was not an officer at all, but the servant of a foreign ambassador; it was he who had dealt the first blow; he had not drawn his sword, but the other had snatched it from his side, and had runhimthrough the body before any one could interfere; whereupon a stranger from among the crowd knocked the murderer down with his stick, and some of the foreignersbelonging to the ambassadors retinue carried off the corpse. But the doctrine of the soul being transported to heaven, and of its happiness being completed at death, finds no place in the Bible or the Liturgies of any branchGreek, Roman, or Anglicanof the Church Catholic. On emerging from the forest, the two Eireks came upon a strait, separating them from a beautiful land, which was unmistakably Paradise; and the Danish Eirek, intent on displaying his scriptural knowledge, pronounced the strait to be the River Pison. A third period is occasionally met with, but only occasionally. Well, said the host to his wife, we shall have no occasion to send for the man again, as you are such an adept.. This story of Lady Fanshawe is from a note to The Lady of the Lake.. The king, in a fury, slew the bird, and then discovered that the water dripped from the jaws of a serpent of the most poisonous description. The legend is told in full in the Vita Christi, printed at Troyes in 1517, in the Legenda Aurea of Jacques de Voragine, in an old Dutch work, Gerschiedenis van det heylighe Cruys, in a French MS. of the thirteenth century in the British Museum. The resemblance traced between bird and cloud is not far fetched: it recurs to the modern poet as it did to the Psalmist, when he spoke of the wings of the wind. If the cloud was supposed to be a great bird, the lightnings were regarded as writhing worms or serpents in its beak. Gottfried-Carl was King of Tongres, and lived at Megen on the Maas. When the sentence had been pronounced by Pilate, Christ was about to be dragged past his house; then he ran home, and called together his household to have a look at Christ, and see what sort of a person He was. I asked him of what sort was the cave that is in Ireland, called S. Patricks Purgatory, and if that were true which was related of it. Beyond this bridge was a wall of glass, in which opened a beautiful gate, which conducted into Paradise. However, whether it be there, or whether it be anywhere else, God knows; but that therewassuch a spot once, and that it was on earth, that is certain.. ", Home for auld lang syne. And the name Helias, Helius, Elis, or Salyius, is but a corruption of the Keltic ala, eala, ealadh, a swan. lament, which was a style of music prevalent back then. You'll feel On the west side of the impluvium, below the step of the tablinum, the pavement represented five rows of squares. It's really difficult to make decisions about what to do with cremation ashes. Olaf Redbeard in Sweden uncloses his eyes at precisely the same distances of time. It lived on land, in a vat full of water, during four days seven hours. My own favourite is The Parting Glass here are a few versions each more emotional than the last. They erected a tent and prepared a feast. Robert of Flanders, on his return from the Holy Land, presented part of an arm of the saint to the city of Toulouse, and other portions to the Countess Matilda and to the abbey of Auchin. not all. It is in twenty-seven folios, and is excessively rare. i. p. 120. Upham, Sacred Books of Ceylon, iii. Gervase of Tilbury relates a portion of it in his Otia Imperalia[104] quoting from Comestor; it appears also in the Speculum His-toriale, in Gottfried von Viterbo, in the Chronicon Engelhusii, and elsewhere. Thence they proceeded to a place called Senes, and finding a beautiful valley, they dismounted to repose. He went round the water, rod in hand, and it turned at spots where he said the fish had been drawn out. The age of the terramares must be long antecedent to the time of Etruscan civilization. How many brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, andcousins of all degrees a little story has! One year it fell on Cleostratus. At the request of Margaret Atwood, to end her guest-edited edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme with the song, a version by singer Karine Polwart and pianist Dave Milligan was commissioned.[5]. 18. The skeleton of the romance is this. Leipzig, 1858. c. iv. He flourished in the time of Solon. In the ancient Gudrun-Lied, an angel approaches like a swimming wild-bird. [23] Their rendition featured a solo vocal by youngest brother Liam and first appeared on their 1959 Tradition Records LP Come Fill Your Glass with Us as well as on a number of subsequent recordings, including the group's high-charting live performance album, In Person at Carnegie Hall. In one of the heroic ballads of the Minussinchen Tartars, the wind, which is represented as a foal which courses round the world, finds that its masters two children, Aidolei Mirgan and Alten Kuruptju, which I take to be the morning and evening stars, are dead and buried and watched by seven warriors. The S. Georges cross occupied the place of honour in the chief room, and at the head of this room, not in the middle, but near the bath or porch. He lived in strict observance of all his religious duties, was famous for his liberality to the poor, his sympathy with the afflicted, his eloquence in the pulpit, his private devotion, and severe asceticism. Their worship was closely united. One Saturday, the old father inquired at dinner after his daughter-in-law. The number of Christians belonging to that communion probably exceeded that of the members of the true Catholic Church in East and West. The pagans sought everywhere, but could not find them, and Decius was greatly irritated at their escape. The Icelandic Sagas teem with similar stories; and they abound in all European household tales. Irish Traditional Song. They are fine looking men, and their hair is not frizzled., M. dAbbadie, another Abyssinian traveller, writing in 1852, gives the following account from thelips of an Abyssinian priest: At the distance of fifteen days journey south of Herrar is a place where all the men have tails, the length of a palm, covered with hair, and situated at the extremity of the spine. Other instances have been cited by commentators on the curious fragment of Cornelius Nepos, which gave rise in the middle ages to a discussion of the possibility of forcing a north-west passage to India. ii. From my experience of English dissenters, I am satisfied that their religion is, to a greater extent than any one has supposed, a revival of ancient paganism, which has long lain dormant among the English peasantry.