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Page 173 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Page 187 - Till his brown locks grew white as wool. His beard as thistle down. At length, all wearied, down in death He laid his reverend head. Meantime amid the lonely wilds His little son was bred. There the we'ird lady of the woods Had borne him far away, And train'd him up in feates of armes. And every martial play. II.— ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.
Page 35 - Strata [MS. has stulta] manuque sibi detexit vulnus honesta. Inspexitque diu; tandemque redire salutem Posse sibi dixit, si secum tempore longo Esset, et ipsius vellet medicamine fungi. Gaudentes igitur regem commisimus illi, Et dedimus ventis redeundo vela secundis.
Page xi - We do not know such a one, though the Voyage of Bran is in our ancient stories." The man leaps from them out of the coracle. As soon as he touched the earth of Ireland, forthwith he was a heap of ashes, as though he had been in the earth for many hundred years.
Page 150 - Addanc, and he will slay thee, and that not by courage, but by craft. He has a cave, and at the entrance of the cave there is a stone pillar, and he sees every one that enters, and none see him ; and from behind the pillar he slays every one with a poisonous dart. And, if thou wouldst pledge me thy faith to love me above all women, I would give thee a stone by which thou shouldst see him when thou goest in, and he should not see thee.
Page 265 - And thereupon behold a porter came to the spot where Gwenhwyvar was. "Lady," said he, "at the gate there is a knight, and I saw never a man of so pitiful an aspect to look upon as he. Miserable and broken is the armor that he wears ; and the hue of blood is more conspicuous upon it than its own color." " Knowest thou his name ? " said she. "I do," said he. "He tells me that he is Edeyrn the son of Nudd.
Page 255 - And Arthur caused Morgan Tud to be called to him. He was the chief physician. "Take with thee Edeyrn, the son of Nudd, and cause a chamber to be prepared for him, and let him have the aid of medicine as thou wouldest do unto myself, if I were wounded; and let none into his chamber to molest him, but thyself and thy disciples, to administer to him remedies.
Page ii - A. Nutt, Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail, London, 1888..