Legends of the Saxon SaintsMacmillan, 1893 - 289 páginas |
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Æsir Anglo-Saxon Asgard Bede Behold beside Birinus Bishop Blessed breast brethren brow Ceadmon Cedd centuries child Christ Christian church cried crowned Cuthbert Cynegils dark dead death divine Eadbald earth East East Anglia East Saxon England ere long Ethelbert eyes face Faith Father feast gazed God's Gods hand hath heard heart heaven heavenly Heida holy hour Irish Jarrow Jötunheim Kenwalk King kingdom knelt land Lastingham lifted Lindisfarne lived Lord maid man's Mercian Midgard Snake monarch monastery monks morn mused night Northumbria's o'er Odin once Oswald Oswin Oswy Pagan passed peace Peada Penda Picts prayed prayer priest Queen race raised realm religion replied reverence rock Roman Rome rose round sacred Saint sang Saxon shone Sigebert sing smile song soul spake spirit stood sword Thanes thee thine things thou throne towers Truth voice warrior wave Wessex youth
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Página 283 - During the sixth and seventh centuries," says Dr. Dollinger, " the Church of Ireland stood in the full beauty of its bloom. The spirit of the gospel operated amongst the people with a vigorous and vivifying power ; troops of holy men, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society, obeyed the counsel of Christ, and forsook all things, that they might follow Him. There was not a country of the world, during this period, which could boast of pious foundations or of religious communities equal to those...
Página 284 - The seventh and eighth centuries are the glory of the Anglo-Saxon Church, as are the sixth and seventh of the Irish. As the Irish missionaries travelled down through England, France, and Switzerland, to lower Italy, and attempted Germany at the peril of their lives, converting the barbarian, restoring the lapsed, encouraging the desolate, collecting the scattered, and founding churches, schools, and monasteries, as they went along; so, amid the deep pagan woods of Germany and round about, the English...
Página 284 - The foundation of many of the English sees", . he says, " is due to Irishmen ; the Northumbrian diocese was for many years governed by them, and the abbey of Lindisfarne, which was peopled by Irish monks and their Saxon disciples, spread far around it its all-blessing influence. These holy men served God and not the world ; they possessed neither gold nor silver, and all that they received from the rich, passed through their hands into the hands of the poor. Kings and nobles visited them from time...
Página xxvi - The ancient Icelandic mythology calls him " the author of every thing that existeth; the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful Being, the searcher into concealed things, the Being that never changeth.
Página xxxviii - The Scots, on the other hand, were of Irish origin; for, to the great confusion of ancient history, the inhabitants of Ireland, those at least of the conquering and predominating caste, were called Scots. A colony of these Irish Scots, distinguished by the name of Dalriads or Dalreudini, natives of Ulster, had early attempted a settlement on the coast of Argyleshire: they finally established themselves there under Fergus, the son of Eric, about the year 503, and, recruited by colonies from Ulster,...
Página xxvii - To serve this divinity with sacrifices and prayers, to do no wrong to others, and to be brave and intrepid in themselves, were all the moral consequences they derived from these doctrines.
Página 283 - Cataldus, founded in 640. Whilst Almost the whole of Europe was desolated by war, peaceful Ireland, free from the invasions of external foes, opened to the lovers of learning and piety a welcome asylum. The strangers, who visited the island, not only from the...
Página xxix - There will arise out of the sea," replied Har, " another earth most lovely and verdant, with pleasant fields where the grain shall grow unsown. Vidar and Vali shall survive ; neither the flood nor Surtur's fire shall harm them. They shall dwell on the plain of Ida, where Asgard formerly stood. Thither shall come the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, bringing with them their father's mallet Mjblnir.
Página xx - The king of Pontus sought there for refuge, and new means of vengeance. He hoped to arm against the ambition of Rome, all the barbarous nations his neighbours, whose liberty she threatened. He succeeded in this at first ; but all those...
Página 283 - ... to perfect themselves in the practices of an ascetic life under Irish directors, and to study the Sacred Scriptures in the school established near that city. At a later period, after the year 650, the AngloSaxons in particular passed over to Ireland in great numbers for the same laudable purposes. On the other hand, many holy and learned Irishmen left their own country to proclaim the faith, to establish or to reform monasteries in distant lands, and thus to become the benefactors of almost every...