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"It was written in that scroll that Marie Trevec, of Groix Island, was cursed by the priest she and her descendants," I said, touching Le Bihan on the arm. "There was a Marie Trevec who married an Yves Trevec of St. Gildas " "It is the same," said Le Bihan, looking at me obliquely. "Oh!" said I; "then they were ancestors of my wife." "Do you fear the curse?" asked Le Bihan. "What?" I laughed.
Geoffrey may very probably have used some Britannic manuscript, but it could not have been very ancient; and he certainly did not translate it, but used it as he used Gildas and Bede and Nennius sometimes quoting their statements, more generally amplifying them almost beyond recognition. Was Geoffrey merely an inventor? Sometimes undoubtedly.
At the same time could be distinguished the clashing of arms, the stamping of horses, and all the noise of a ferocious struggle, above which rose the majestic tones of Gildas the Wise, as he said, with calmness, "Wolf, wicked wolf, I forbid you to touch God's servants!"
Geoffrey says: "In the course of many and various studies I happened to light on the history of the Kings of Britain, and wondered that, in the account which Gildas and Bede, in their elegant treatises, had given of them, I found nothing said of those kings who lived here before Christ, nor of Arthur, and many others; though their actions were celebrated by many people in a pleasant manner, and by heart, as if they had been written.
Gildas and the orthodox Bretons were ceaseless in their thunderings against the prophets, and opposed to them Elias and Samuel, two bards who only foretold good; even in the twelfth century Giraldus Cambrensis saw a prophet in the town of Caerleon.
When the head of the cavalcade approached the tower, the grand abbot cried out, "My armed guards, sound your horns to awaken Dame Josserande's son!" And instantly there was a blast from the horns, which rang out until Gildas the Wise exclaimed, "Be silent, for there is my tenant wide awake at his window." When all was still, the grand abbot raised his crozier and said,
And as Professor Gildas stood and worked at the samples and tied them up after analysis in little white cardboard boxes, he marked each one very carefully and neatly with the words, PYRITES: WORTHLESS. Beside the professor worked a young demonstrator of last year's graduation class. It was he, in fact, who had written the polite notice on the card. "What is the stuff, anyway?" he asked.
"Well, I I took the cartridges first to St. Gildas chapel and dipped them in holy water. You must not laugh, Dick," said Lys gently, laying her cool hands on my lips. "Laugh, my darling!" Overhead the October sky was pale amethyst, and the sunlight burned like orange flame through the yellow leaves of beech and oak.
It was indeed the ruin of a basilica wherein they stood, but no trace survived to show whether Dunstan's conjecture was correct. "It seems strange that God should have permitted them to fall before the sword of our heathen ancestors." "Their own historian Gildas, who lies buried at Glastonbury, explains it.
Findian, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, had come under the influence of three of the foremost of them: David, Gildas, and Catwg the Wise; who were perhaps great men, if we may judge by the results of their teaching, as Findian transmitted it to those that came after him. We have seen that Patrick opened no kind of golden age in Ireland, gave no impulse to civilization or letters.
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