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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346118" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Menologium. (Preface To The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRIST WAS BORN, KING OF GLORY<br>in midwinter, mighty prince,<br>eternal, almighty, on the eighth day,<br>Healer, called, heaven's ward;<br>so at the same time singing praises<br>countless folk begin the year,<br>for the awaited time comes to town,<br>the first month, famous January.<br>Five nights later the Lord's baptism,<br>and eternal God's epiphany comes;<br>the twelve-days' time to blessed men known,<br>by us in Britain called Twelfthnight.<br>Four weeks later February falls,<br>Sol-month brighter settles in town,<br>a month minus two days;<br>so February's way was reckoned by the wise,<br>One night more is Mary's mass,<br>the King's mother; for on that day Christ,<br>the child of the Ruler, she revealed in the temple. <br>After five nights winter was fared,<br>and after seventeen he suffered death:<br>the Saviour's man, great Matthew,<br>when spring has come to stay in town.<br>And to the folk after five nights<br>-- unless it is Leap Year, when it comes one night later --<br>by his cold clothes of frost and hail <br>wild March is known throughout the world, <br>Hlyda-month, blowing loud,<br>Eleven nights later, holy and noble,<br>Gregory shone in God's service,<br>honoured in Britain. So Benedict,<br>nine nights passing, sought the Preserver,<br>the resolute man celebrated in writings<br>by men under his rule. So the wise in reckoning<br>at that time count the equinox,<br>because, wielding power, God at the beginning<br>made on the same day sun and moon.<br>Four nights after the Father<br>sent the equinox, his archangel announced<br>the mighty salvation to great Mary,<br>that she the Shaper of all should bear<br>bring to birth the best of kings,<br>as it was widely told through the world;<br>that was a great destiny delivered to us.<br>So after seven nights the Saviour sends<br>the month of April, most often bringing<br>the mighty time of comfort to mankind,<br>the Lord's resurrection, when joy is rightly <br>celebrated everywhere, as that wise one sang:<br>'This is the day which the Lord hath made;<br>we will rejoice and be glad in it.'<br>Nor may we hold that time by tally <br>of a length of days, nor the Lord's <br>ascension to heaven, for always it changes<br>within the rules known to the wise man,<br>old in winters; in the cycle<br>he can with craft find the holy days. <br>The martyrs' memory we must yet recount,<br>say in words, sing with wisdom, <br>that after nineteen nights and five<br>from Easter's blessed coming to us,<br>men begin to raise the relics,<br>holy treasures; that is a high day,<br>when Rogation is held. Quickly to men's homes,<br>six nights further in the fine gear,<br>in groves and flowers comes glorious, shining,<br>strongly to men as it must, <br>the fulness of May through many lands.<br>On the same day the noble disciples<br>Philip and James gave up their lives,<br>mighty warriors, for the maker's love.<br>After two nights was taken by God<br>to blessed Helen the noblest of beams,<br>on which lay suffering the Lord of angels<br>for love of man, the maker on a gallows<br>by the Father's leave. After the first week<br>minus one night, to men are brought<br>sun-bright days by summer to town,<br>warm weather. Woods and fields as soon<br>bloom and blossom; so beauty is called up<br>over middle-earth, as in his manner<br>each kind of creature declares the King's love,<br>the Almighty's. After eight nights<br>and days turning, the Lord took up<br>Augustine into the other light,<br>embraced the blessed man who in Britain<br>gladly inspired men's obedience<br>within the will of God as wise Gregory bade.<br>Nor have I heard before of a better man<br>anywhere bringing better teaching,<br>a more celebrated bishop over the sea;<br>by the king's seat in Kent he rests near the church<br>after six long days the month draws near,<br>earlier by us called Litha,<br>now called June, and the gem rises<br>in the heavens the highest in the year,<br>then sinks from his place and sets;<br>he will not for long travel late,<br>the fairest light over the fields.<br>After thirteen nights and ten the glorious thane<br>loved by the Lord, John the Baptist, was born,<br>whom we celebrate in midsummer.<br>And widely it is held throughout the world,<br>widely honoured as well it should be,<br>that holy day in the homes of men,<br>when Peter and Paul the apostles,<br>loyal servants, suffered in Rome<br>five nights on from midsummer's day<br>glorious martyrdom; miracles they worked,<br>many for men among the nations,<br>countless, manifest and clear through the Maker's Son.<br>Then after two nights, timely to us,<br>comes July, in which James <br>on the twenty-fourth night took up his life,<br>wise and truthful, teacher of the people,<br>Zebedee's son. Summer on the seventh night<br>brings the weed-month brightly to town;<br>everywhere August comes to the earth,<br>and Lammas-time. Later coming,<br>one week minus one day,<br>is high autumn, heavy with harvest;<br>then wealth is found that is fair on earth.<br>On the third day the glorious deacon<br>was martyred and went forth, mighty man,<br>Lawrence, who now has life<br>with the wonder-Father in reward for his works.<br>After five nights the fairest of virgins,<br>the wondrous woman, went to the God of hosts<br>for her son's mothering, to the victory-seat,<br>a home in heaven; the Saviour has so<br>repaid forever that perfect fostering.<br>Then on the tenth night in the turning of time,<br>Bartholomew here in Britain<br>is honoured far and wide for his fate.<br>So also after four nights,<br>the noble's death-day is known to men:<br>he who baptized the glorious Boy,<br>the worthy warrior of the Word,<br>of whom God said no greater man<br>was born on earth between man and woman.<br>And after three nights throughout the nations,<br>the month that is held by men as holy <br>fares to the people as it was foreseen,<br>as the old astronomers ere found,<br>September's way; and it was on the seventh day<br>that the best queens came to birth,<br>the Lord's mother. Then more days pass,<br>thirteen in number, and the blameless thane<br>clear-sighted in God's word sent up his spirit:<br>Matthew to his Maker<br>went in eternal joy. Then arrives<br>after three nights to the nations,<br>the day of equinox to the children of earth; <br>and here we count worthy, far and wide,<br>the archangel's time in the autumn,<br>Michael, known to the multitude,<br>five nights after the equinox-day.<br>Two nights later, the tenth month<br>comes to men with wise counsel,<br>October arrives among men with abundance:<br>Winterfylleth was the old word<br>among the island-dwellers, Angles and Saxons,<br>men and women. So the warriors' time comes<br>on the twenty-seventh, and the two noble ones<br>on the same day are celebrated:<br>we have heard how long ago<br>Simon and Jude, shining with glory,<br>did great deeds. For that their doom<br>was a blessed uplifting. Then arrives quickly,<br>after four nights, to the folk with plenty,<br>Blotmonath in town, and brings feasting to men:<br>November, a time of blessedness<br>like no other month, by the Lord's mercy.<br>The same day we celebrate the feast of All Saints,<br>who worked in the world the will of God.<br>Then winter's day opens wide<br>in six nights, seizes the sun,<br>ravages the harvest with rime and snow,<br>chains them with frost at the Lord's command;<br>the green meadows may not stay with us,<br>the fields' covering. And four nights later<br>it was that the mighty one, Martin, departed,<br>the stainless servant sought the Lord;<br>and on the twelfth night Clement was taken,<br>sunk in the grey sea, strong in victory,<br>called on by name by many in need.<br>On the seventh night after, dear to the Saviour,<br>noble Andrew arose into heaven,<br>gave his ghost into God's keeping,<br>eager depart in earthly death,<br>Then morning to men brings in the month<br>called December by the Redeemer's children,<br>the old Yule. So in eight nights and twelve<br>the Saviour himself, strong in purpose,<br>gave with difficulty an eternal kingdom to Thomas,<br>and to the bold man his blessing.<br>Then after four nights the Father of angels<br>sent his Son into creation's expanse<br>to comfort mankind. Now you can find<br>the holy days, that man shall hold<br>throughout Britain at the bidding<br>of the Saxon's king at the same time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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in midwinter, mighty prince,
eternal, almighty, on the eighth day,
Healer, called, heaven's ward;
so at the same time singing praises
countless folk begin the year,
for the awaited time comes to town,
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