Prosalegenden die legende des ms. Douce 114 (dialekt von Nottinghamshire?) / [ed. C. Horstmann].

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Prosalegenden die legende des ms. Douce 114 (dialekt von Nottinghamshire?) / [ed. C. Horstmann].
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Horstmann, Carl, 1851-
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Halle a. S.: Max Niemeyer
1885
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"Prosalegenden die legende des ms. Douce 114 (dialekt von Nottinghamshire?) / [ed. C. Horstmann]." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00060. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025.

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¶ How Cristyn was deed. Cap. II.

And after this of inwarde exercise of contemplacyone she wex seek in bodily myghte, and dyed. ¶ þen þe deed body was leyde forþe and þe lyche doon of hir sistres and frendes [Lat.: Tune positum in medio corpus exanime ab amicis & sororibus maxime lamentabatur.] , and on þe morne was borne to kirke. And while þe masse was in doynge for hir soule, [ 15] sodeynly þe body sterid and roos vp in þe bere, and anoon lifte vp as a bridde, steiȝh in to þe beemes of þe kyrke. Þen alle þat (þere) were, fledde, & hir eldist sister alone [Ms. aboue.] bode stille with drede. And she abode in þe kyrke-roufe vnmoued, tille þe messe was doon: þen sche was conioured of the preste of þe chirche & constreyned [ 20] to come doun. ¶ Sooþly, as sum suppos, þe soteltee of hir spirite loþed þe taste and sauoure of mennes bodyes. ¶ Þenne she wente anoon hoom ageyne wiþ her sustres, & eet hir meet. ¶ And þan hir specyal freendys ȝede to hir & spired hir what she hadde seen or what she hadde suffred. [ 25]

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