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Name: Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund
Author: Ælfric

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

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“Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund”, is a work by Ælfric. It explores elements such as Hingwar, munuc and Christ manifesteth.

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“ Christ showeth to men, through His illustrious saints,
that He is Almighty God who causeth such wonders,
though the miserable Jews altogether denied Him,
because they are accursed, as they desired for themselves.
There are no wonders wrought at their sepulchres,
because they believe not in the living Christ;
but Christ manifesteth to men where the true faith is,
since He worketh such miracles by His saints
widely throughout the earth, wherefore to Him be glory
ever with His Heavenly Father, and with the Holy Ghost, for
ever and ever. Amen. ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

“ Then Theodred the bishop, after he had searched his books,
rued with lamentation that he had awarded such a cruel doom
to these unhappy thieves, and ever deplored it
to his life's end; and earnestly prayed the people
to fast with him fully three days,
praying the Almighty that He would have pity upon him.
In that land was a certain man called Leofstan,
rich in worldly things, and ignorant towards God,
who rode with great insolence to the saint's shrine,
and very arrogantly commanded them to show him
the holy saint, (to see) whether he were incorrupt ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

“ A certain very learned monk came from the South, over the sea, from Saint Benedict's Stow, in the days of king ^Ethelred, to archbishop Dunstan, three years before he died; and the monk was- called Abbo. Then they were in conversation till Dunstan told him about saint Edmund, even as Edmund's sword-bearer told it to king Æthelstan, when Dunstan was a young man and the sword-bearer a very old man. ”

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“ She would every year cut the hair of the saint,
and cut his nails soberly and lovingly,
and keep them in a shrine as relics on the altar.
So the people of the land faithfully venerated the saint;
and bishop Theodred exceedingly [enriched the church]
with gifts in gold and silver, in the saint's honour.
Then once upon a time came some unblessed thieves,
eight in one night, to the venerable saint,
desiring to steal the treasures which people had brought thither,
and tried how they might get in by craft. ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

“ Then Hingwar turned eastward with his ships,
and Hubba was left in Northumbria,
having won the victory by means of cruelty.
Then Hingwar came rowing to East Anglia
in the year when Alfred the Ætheling was one and twenty years old,
he who afterward became the renowned king of the West-Saxons.
And the aforesaid Hingwar suddenly, like a wolf,
stalked over the land and slew the people,
men and women, and witless children,
and shamefully tormented the innocent Christians. ”

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“ Then they were all brought to the bishop,
and he commanded men to hang them all on a high gallows;
but he was not mindful how the merciful God
spake through His prophet the words which here stand;
Eos qui ducuntur ad mortem eruere ne cesses
those who are led to death deliver thou alway.
And also the holy canons forbid clerics,
both bishops and priests, to be concerned about thieves,
because it becometh not them that are chosen
to serve God, that they should consent
to any man's death, if they be the Lord's servants. ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

“ SVM SǷYE GELÆRED MUNUC cō suþan ofer sǽ frā sce̅ ⁠001
benedictes stóƿe on æþelredes cynincges dæge to dunstane
ærce-bisceope þrim gearū ær he forðferde · ⁊ se munuc hatte
abbo · þa ƿurdon hi æt spræce oþ dunstan rehte be sce̅
eadmunde · sƿa sƿa eadmundes sƿurd-bora hit rehte æþelstane
cynincge þa þa dunstan iung man ƿæs · ⁊ se sƿurd-bora ƿæs forealdod
man ·
Þa gesette se munuc ealle þa gereccednysse on ⁠007
anre béc · ⁊ eft ða þa seo bóc com to ús binnan feaƿū
gearum þa aƿende ƿe hit on englisc · sƿa sƿa hit her-æfter
stent · ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

“ Men þa þæs ƿundrodon hu þa ƿeargas hangodon · ⁠211
sū on hlæddre · sū leat to gedelfe ·
and ælc on his ƿeorce ƿæs fæste gebunden ·
Hi ƿurdon þa ge-brohte to þā bisceope ealle · ⁠214
and he het hí hón on heagū gealgū ealle ·
Ac he næs na gemyndig hu se mild-heorta god ⁠216
clypode þurh his ƿitegan þas ƿord þe hér standað · ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Edmund

“ Far nu sƿiþe hraðe · and sege þinum reþan hlaforde · ⁠090
ne abihð næfre eadmund hingƿare on life
hæþenū here-togan · buton he to hælende criste
ærest mid ge-leafan on þysū lande gebuge ·
Þa ge-ƿende se ærend-raca ardlice aƿeg · ⁠094
and gemette be ƿæge þone ƿælhreoƿan hingƿar
mid eallre his fyrde fuse to eadmunde ·
and sæde þam arleasan hu him ge⁊ƿyrd ƿæs ·
Hingƿar þa bebead mid bylde þā scip-here ⁠098
 hi þæs cynincges anes ealle cepan sceoldon ·
þe his hæse forseah · and hine sona bindan · ”

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