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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.254–6.
[1]
f. 1
There was an holi eremyth þat hyth ernald whech was ryth weel belouid wyth almythy god and of his blisful modir mayde marie and for that he was so weel a lowyd wyth that good lord that blisful lady on a serteyn nyth aperid to hym in hys slep and schewyd to hym this orisun wech is of gret deuocioun …
f. 2v
… and deuowtli dede it prechin and techyn thorw owt al his dyosise so it is now cum to us blissid be god almytty amen.
A prose version of the Anglo-Norman verses Canon Arnaud and the Virgin, Dean & Boulton no. 562. A hermit named Ernald is recorded near Leafield in Oxfordshire in 1232, under the patronage of Lechlade Priory, see R. M. Clay, The Hermits and Anchorites of England (London, 1914), pp. 129, 242–3.
Other texts: The Middle English is seemingly unique.
[A42]
[A43]
s. xiv.
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