Menologium, seu calendarium poeticum, ex Hickesiano thesauro; or, The poetical calendar of the Anglo-Saxons, with an Engl1830 |
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acenned Additional Poems ALEXANDER DYCE alliteration Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon church bards Bissextile bring Britain Butan Calends called celebrated Christ Creator cyme dæg Dæne Dænne Ðæt Daligna drihtner Ɖænne Ɖæt eahta earls embe tpa niht Emnihter engla eoɲðan Equinox fæder Fæzene feast February Fened fif niht Fif nihtum five nights Folc Folca Folcum foldan Foppan four nights Frod Genim gepunian glory goder Gregory healdan healic heavens heptarchy Hickesii erratum illustrious Iula Iule JOHN MITFORD king kingdom Lammas day Leond bryten Leond middan geard liða line by Hickes Litha Lord Lyft Mæne Maiur Mannum martyrdom mazon MENOLOGIUM MENOLOGY meotudes micle middle earth midne monad month niht dær Original Memoir pealdend peaɲd PEMBROKE COLLEGE periphrasis picum pide poɲulde Portrait rceal reopen niht saints Saviour Saxon Saxon poetry Seaxe Spa bebuze Spylce eac Spylce emb Temb THOMAS COMBE three nights tiid tune WILLIAM PICKERING ylcan ÿlcan dæge þam
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Page 60 - Lenten ys come with love to toune, With blosmen ant with briddes roune, That al this blisse bryngeth : Dayes-eyes in this dales; Notes suete of nyhtegales; 5 Uch foul song singeth.
Page iii - MENOLOGIUM ; or the Poetical Calendar of the Anglo-Saxons ; with an English Translation and Notes, by the Rev.
Page 60 - ... still very common in this country, as instead of seven days, we say, se'nnight; and instead of fourteen days, we say fortnight.
Page 45 - Now may ye find the times of the saints that men should observe, as the command goeth through Britain of the king of the Saxons at this same time.
Page 11 - Month," and January he called " Winter Month." But the Oriental Church had fixed the period for the 6th of January, now the Epiphany. Hence, in the Saxon Poetical Calendar (Fox's translation) we read : — Christ, the glory of kings, the illustrious Lord, the eternal Almighty, was born at mid-winter ; and on the eighth day was named Jesus, Guardian of heaven's kingdom. Then at the same time numerous crowds, many people, have the first keeping of the year, because the honoured Calends came, on that...
Page 19 - In which most frequently comes The celebrated time Of consolation to men, The resurrection of the Lord: Then rejoicing is suitable, Widely, everywhere : So the Prophet...
Page 25 - Of many kinds Of living creatures Ascends throughout the middle earth, Gives praise to the king, Manifoldly celebrates The glorious Almighty. Then it...
Page 21 - Of the number of the days ; * Nor the Lord's ascension Up- to the heavens : For tkey always return^ [wise. According to the predictions of the But the old in years . . -, '* • ShaU. by Firni^ out the holy days.
Page 13 - Of the eternal Lord Comes to us ; Which the renowned, And eminent men, here In Britain* call Twelfth-day.