Biographia Britannica Literaria: Or, Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland, Arranged in Chronological OrderJ. W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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Page 195 - In the morning, he hastened to the bailiff of Whitby, who carried him before the abbess Hilda ; and there, in the presence of some of the learned men of the place, he told his story, and they were all of opinion that he had received the gift of song from heaven.