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I really don't know, I'm afraid, Cate! I'm still in touch with my
tutor, so I'll ask her if she knows. May take some time though.
Jane
On 10/12/2015 09:45, Cate Gunn wrote:
> Do you know any more about the OE piece? Could it also have been taken from Gregory, or were similar parallel stories circulating?
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> all the best
> Cate
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>> On 9 Dec 2015, at 22:27, Jane Stemp Wickenden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>> Meg,
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>> I'm afraid this isn't 100% germane, but you bring back memories ...
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>> I had a piece of Old English prose to translate unseen for my English degree (can't remember whether it was Mods or Finals now! - but 1981 or 1983 in any case). The piece was helpfully entitled ''The nun, the lettuce and the devil":
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>> A nun was told to gather a lettuce for the convent's meal, but for all she pulled the lettuce would not uproot. The Mother Superior, who was a very saintly woman, went to investigate, saw the devil sitting on the lettuce and realised that the nun hadn't made the sign of the cross (ne hadde mid rode gebletsode, I think it was). Upon the nun's correctly making the sign, the devil fled and the lettuce came out of the ground ....
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>> For lettuce possibly read cabbage. It was a long time ago.
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>> Jane
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>> On 09/12/2015 19:05, Cormack, Margaret Jean wrote:
>>> It immediately occurs to me that crossing oneself before eating was recommended in the pre-Reformation western church, though that's presumably an apotropaic device rather than an expression of gratitude.
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