Ælfric

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

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint George

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“Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint George”, is a work by Ælfric. It explores elements such as sorcerer, gods and devil.

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

“ APRIL 23. SAINT GEORGE, MARTYR.
Heretics have written falsehoods in their books
about the holy man who is called George.
Now will we tell you that which is true about him, that their error may not secretly harm any one.
The holy George was in heathen days
a rich noble under the cruel emperor,
who was called Datian, in the province Cappadocia.
Then Datian bade men gather the heathen
to his devil-worship, as an insult to his Lord,
and, with many threats, frightened the people
so that they offered their sacrifices to the false gods with him. ”

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

“ Then Datian became fiendishly angry,
and bade seize on the sorcerer, who had there believed in God,
and bring him out of the city, and instantly behead him.
Again on the second day the wicked emperor commanded
George to be bound on a broad wheel,
and two sharp swords to be set against him,
and so to be drawn up, and shoved backwards.
Then George commended himself boldly to God;
Deus in adiutorium meum intende; domine, ad adiuuandum me festina.
'Give heed, O God, to deliver me, make haste now to help me, O Lord' [Ps. lxx. i] . ”

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“ Emperor, are golden and silvern,
stone and wooden, the handiwork of unbelieving men,
and ye set guards over them to watch them against thieves.'
So then Datian became fiendishly angered
against the holy man, and bade him say
of what city he was, and what was his name. ”

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“ After this prayer, a very sudden fire burst out
from Heaven, and burned up the temple,
and all the gods sunk utterly
into the earth, and never appeared afterward.
Likewise, the priests sunk down with them,
and some of the heathen who stood there at hand;
and George asked the wicked emperor,
'On what sort of gods persuadest thou us to believe'?
How can they deliver thee from perils,
when they cannot deliver themselves?'
Thereupon, Datian endited this decree,
and bade thus to kill the champion of God ”

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“ Þa geseah se halga ƿer þæra hæðenra gedƿyld ⁠012
hu hi ðā deoflum onsægdon ⁊ heora drihten forsaƿon ·
ða aspende he his feoh unforh (sic) on ælmyssū
hafen-leasum mannum þam hælende to lofe ·
⁊ ƿearð þurh crist gebyld · ⁊ cƿæð to ðam casere · ”

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“ God beseoh ðu on minum fultume · drihten efst þu nu me to fultumigenne · ⁠091
⁊ he ƿearð þa gebroht mid þysum gebæde on þam hƿeoƿle ·
Þa tyrndon þa hæðenan hetelice  hƿeoƿl · ⁠093
ac hit sona tobærst ⁊ beah to eorðan ·
⁊ se halga ƿer ƿunode ungederod ·
Datianus þa dreorig ƿearð on mode · ⁠096
⁊ sƿor ðurh ða sunnan · ⁊ ðurh ealle his godas
 he mid mislicum ƿitum hine ƿolde fordón · ”

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“ Hƿæt ða datianus ƿearð færlice ofslagen ⁠179
mid heofonlicum fyre · ⁊ his geferan samod
þa ða he hamƿerd ƿæs mid his heah þegenum ·
⁊ he becom to helle ærðan þe to his huse ·
⁊ se halga georius siðode to criste ·
mid ðam he á ƿunað on ƿuldre · Amen. ”

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“ Ic gange into þe on mines drihtnes naman · ⁠110
⁊ ic hopige on drihten  he me ungederodne
of ðisum ƿeallendum hƿere ƿylle nu ahreddan ·
þam is lof · ⁊ ƿuldor · geond ealle ƿoruld ·
And he bletsode  lead ⁊ læg him onuppan · ⁠114
⁊  lead ƿearð acolod þurh godes mihte ·
⁊ georius sæt gesund on ðam hƿere · ”

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

“ Hƿæt ða datianus deoflice ƿearð gram · ⁠082
⁊ het geniman þone dry þe þær gelyfde on god ·
⁊ lædan of ðære byrig ⁊ beheafdian sona ·
Eft on þam oþrum dæge het se arleasa casere ⁠085
gebindan georium on anum bradum hƿeoƿle ·
⁊ tƿa scearpe sƿurd settan him to-geanes ·
⁊ sƿa up ateon ⁊ under-bæc sceofan · ”

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