Ælfric

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

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Swythun

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“Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Swythun”, is a work by Ælfric. It explores elements such as Swithhun, AEthelwold and certain thane.

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

“ The bolt at once shot out of the fetter,
and the serf rose up, freed by the saint.
A certain man was bound about the head
for his heavy guilt; he came to the saint,
and his sore head-bond soon burst asunder as he prayed.
We cannot write, nor recount in words,
all the miracles that the holy man Swithhun
wrought by the power of God in the sight of the people,
both on prisoners, and on sick men,
to manifest to men that they themselves may
merit the kingdom of heaven by good works,
even as Swithhun did, who now shineth through his miracles. ”

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“ Then however at last the smith went to his burial-place,
and took hold, though fearfully, of a ring,
and cried to God, saying these words;
'O Lord God, maker of all creatures,
grant to me, a sinful man, that I may pull up this ring
out of this lid, if he lieth here within,
who thrice spake unto me in a dream.'
Thereupon he drew the iron out of the stone as easily
as if it had stood in sand, and greatly wondered thereat. ”

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“ He lay thus a long time, despairing of his life;
then at last his kinsmen carried the man
to Saint Swithhun, and he himself confessed
his foolish words, that he had presumptously spoken,
and entreated pardon from him, and thereon he was made whole,
so that he went home in health with his kinsmen.
It is likewise to wit, that men do unwisely
when they doltishly jest at dead men's corpses,
and introduce by their sport any licentiousness,
when they should rather sorrow for the dead,
and dread the coming of death for themselves,
and earnestly pray for his soul without [any] madness. ”

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“ When it dawned, and they began to sing lauds,
then suddenly the fetters round her feet fell from her,
and she ran to the church to the blessed saint,
with bound hands, as the saint willed,
and her lord came after her and loosed her hands,
and freed her at once for the honour of Saint Swithhun.
A certain thane lay a long time crippled by paralysis,
and could not move from his bed for many years.
Then said he that he desired to journey to Winchester
if only in his horse-litter, and pray for his healing. ”

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“ Then AEthelwold, the venerable and blessed bishop,
who in those days was bishop of Winchester,
bade all his monks who dwelt in the monastery,
that they should all go in procession to church,
and with hymns praise the merits of the saint,
and so magnify God, because of the great saint,
as often as any sick man should be healed.
Then forthwith they did so, and sang the Te Deum,
until they all loathed to arise so often,
sometimes three, and sometimes four times in a night,
to sing the Te Deum, when they wanted to sleep ”

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“ Five and twenty men, diversely afflicted,
came to the saint, imploring their health;
some were blind, and some were halt,
some also deaf, and some dumb,
and they all were healed in one day
through the saint's intercession, and went their way home.
There was a certain thane in England, very rich in possessions,
who became suddenly blind; then journeyed he to Rome,
desiring to pray for his cure from the holy Apostles,
he dwelt at Rome, but was not cured,
for four full years; then he heard of Saint Swithhun,
what miracles he had wrought since he [the thane] had journeyed thence ”

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“ A certain holy father was named Macarius,
a dweller in the desert, working many miracles,
a man of monastic life. Then was a maiden transformed
by the delusion of sorcerers, but only in an illusory manner. ”

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

“ Such are the delusions of the sorcerers.
Be glory and praise to the benevolent Creator,
who magnifieth His saints mightily by miracles,
who reigneth ever to all eternity. Amen.
↑ Lit. follows him. ”

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“ Hƿilon comon to ðā halgan hund-tƿelftig manna⁠318
mislice geuntrumode mid manegum brocum ·
⁊ þa ƿurdon ealle ƿundorlice gehælde ·
binnan þrym ƿucum · ⁊ hi ƿendon ham
þancigende þam ælmihtigan gode ⁊ þam arƿurðan sƿiþune ·
Sumes þegnes cniht feoll færlice of his horse⁠323
 him to-bærst se earm · ⁊ se oðer sceanca ·
⁊ sƿiðe ƿearð gecƿysed ·  hi sona ƿendon
 he þær-rihte sceolde sƿeltan heom [←him] ætforan · ”

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“ Aþelƿold þa asende sona to þam munecum ⁠257
of cyninges hyrede · ⁊ cƿ̅  hi sceoldon
þone lof-sang singan · sƿa sƿa he ge-set hæfde ·
⁊ se þe hit forsaƿe · sceolde hit mid fæstene
seofon niht on án sƿarlice gebetan ·
Hi hit heoldon þa syððan symle on ge-ƿunon · ⁠262
sƿa sƿa ƿe gesaƿon sylfe for oft ·
⁊ þone sang ƿe sungon unseldon mid heom [←him] ·
Sum ƿer ƿæs betogen  he ƿære on stale · ⁠265
ƿæs sƿaðeah unscyldig · ⁊ hine man sona gelæhte
⁊ æfter ƿoruld-dome dydon him ut þa eagan ·
⁊ his earan forcurfon · þa arn him  blod
into þam heafde ·  he gehyran ne mihte · ”

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“ On ðam timan ƿæron eac ƿurð-fulle bisceopas · ⁠457
dunstan se anræda æt ðam erce-stole ·
⁊ aþelƿold se arƿurða · ⁊ oðre gehƿylce ·
ac dunstan ⁊ aþelƿold ƿæron drihtne gecorene ·
⁊ hi sƿyðost manodon menn to godes ƿillan ·
⁊ ælc god arærdon gode to cƿemednysse ·
 gesƿuteliað þa ƿundra þe god ƿyrcð þurh hi ·
itē alia. ”

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

“ On þære ylcan tide ƿæs sum ƿyln gehæft to sƿinglum ⁠166
for sƿyðe lytlan gylte · ⁊ læg on hæftnedum
 heo hetelice ƿære þæs on mergen besƿungen ·
þa ƿacode heo ealle ða niht ⁊ mid ƿope clypode
to ðam halgan sƿyðune  he hulpe hire earmre ·
⁊ frā þam reðum sƿinglum hi ahredde þurh god ·
Mid þam þe hit dagode ⁊ man drihtnes lofsang ongan · ⁠172
þa feollan ða fot-copsas færlice hire fram ·
⁊ heo arn to cyrcan to þam arƿurðan halgan
gebundenum handum sƿa sƿa se halga ƿolde ·
⁊ se hlaford com æfter ⁊ alysde hire handa ·
⁊ gefreode hi sona for sƿyðunes ƿurðmynte · ”

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“ Þa cƿæð  ƿif him to ·  hit ƿære sƿyðun ⁠388
se ðe hine lærde mid þære halgan lare ·
⁊ þone ðe he geseah on ðære cyrcan sƿa fægerne ·
Heo cƿ̅ ða to þam ƿere · hit ƿære nu full góód · ⁠391
 ðe man bære to cyrcan · ⁊ þu bæde þone halgan
 he ðe gehælde þurh his halgan ge-earnunga [←ge-earnunge] ·
Hine man bær ða sona of ðam bedde to cyrcan ⁠394
binnan ƿithlande [sic @ Skeat] · ⁊ he ƿearð gehæled sona
þurh þone ælmihtigan god · for sƿyðunes ge-earnungum ·
⁊ eode him ða ham hal on his fotū ·
seðe ær ƿæs geboren on bære to cyrcan · ”

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“ Þa dydon hi sona sƿa · ⁊ sungon þone lofsang · ⁠230
oð heom [←him] laðode eallum  hi sƿa oft arisan ·
hƿilon þryƿa on niht · hƿilon feoƿer syðum
to singenne þone lofsang þonne hi slapan sceoldon ·
| ⁊ forleton ealle endemes þone sang ·
forðam þe se bisceop ƿæs bysig mid þam cynincge ·
⁊ nyste butan hi sungon þone lof-sang forð on · ”

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

“ He ƿunode þa on rome ⁊ ne ƿearð gehæled · ⁠196
feoƿer gear fulli|ce · ⁊ befran þa be sƿyðune
hƿylce ƿundra he ƿorhte syððan he geƿende þanon ·
he efste þa sƿyðe ⁊ to his earde geƿende ·
⁊ com to þam halgan ƿere ⁊ ƿearð gehæled þær ·
⁊ ham geƿende mid halre gesihðe ·
Sū ƿer ƿæs eac blind ƿel seofon gear fulle · ⁠202
se hæfde ænne latteoƿ þe hine lædde gehƿider ·
ða sume dæg eode hé sƿa sƿa he oft dyde ·
⁊ se latteoƿ ƿearð gebolgen ⁊ þone blindan forlét ·
arn him aƿeg · ⁊ se oðer nyste
hu he ham come · ac clypode to gode
mid inneƿerdre heortan · ⁊ mid angsūnysse cƿæð · ”

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