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ch. 34 —
ch. 34, ed. and tr. in Colgrave, Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac (1956), 108-110, 109-111.
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Passage mentioning Britons and their speech (strimulentas loquelas) as learnt and perceived by Guthlac in the reign of Coenred.
Passage mentioning Britons and their speech (strimulentas loquelas) as learnt and perceived by Guthlac in the reign of Coenred.
[ch. 34] Now it happened in the days of Cœnred King of the Mercians, while the Britons the implacable enemies of the Saxon race, were troubling the English with their attacks, their pillaging, and their devastations of the people, on a certain night about the time of cockcrow, when Guthlac of blessed memory was as usual engaged in vigils and prayers, that he was suddenly overcome by a dream-filled sleep, and it seemed to him that he heard the shouts of a tumultuous crowd. Then, quicker than words, he was aroused from his light sleep and went out of the cell in which he was sitting; standing, with ears alert, he recognized the words that the crowd were saying, and realized that British hosts were approaching his dwelling: for in years gone by he had been exile among them, so that he was able to understand their sibilant speech [strimulentas loquelas]. Straightway they strove to approach his dwelling through the marshes, and at almost the same moment he saw all of his buildings burning, the flames mounting upwards: indeed, they caught him too and began to lift him into the air on the sharp points of their spears. Then at length the man of God, perceiving the thousand-fold forms of this insidious foe and his thousand-fold tricks, sang the first verse of the sixty-seventh psalm as if prophetically, 'Let God arise', etc.: when they had heard this, at the same moment, quicker than words, all the hosts of demons vanished like some from his presence.
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miracle worked by living saint • Late Brittonic
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Psalm 67; demons;
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