. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. om Psalm xxiiL (xxiv.) will give an idea of thespeech of our forefathers when Alfred was a babe inhis wicker cradle at Wantage : Domini est terra, et plenitudo ejus ; orbis terrarum, et Dryht is carSe, 7 fylnis his; ymb-hwyrft eorCena, 7[Lords ^ earth, and fulness of-it; round of-lands, and universi qui habitant in 6a eardiaS in hire,all that abide in it.] Ipse super niaria fundavit earn, et super flumina He ofer seas ge-stea8elade hie 7 ofer flodas[He over seas made-steadfast it, and over floods prsparavit it.] Passi
. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. om Psalm xxiiL (xxiv.) will give an idea of thespeech of our forefathers when Alfred was a babe inhis wicker cradle at Wantage : Domini est terra, et plenitudo ejus ; orbis terrarum, et Dryht is carSe, 7 fylnis his; ymb-hwyrft eorCena, 7[Lords ^ earth, and fulness of-it; round of-lands, and universi qui habitant in 6a eardiaS in hire,all that abide in it.] Ipse super niaria fundavit earn, et super flumina He ofer seas ge-stea8elade hie 7 ofer flodas[He over seas made-steadfast it, and over floods prsparavit it.] Passing over the other two Psalters (one of themthe Paris MS. already referred to), we may heretake note of the noble illuminated folio known asthe Book of Durham or Lindisfarne Gospels. Thebook of Cuthbert the Blessed, it was called in theold time. It was begun on Lindisfarne in the life-time of the sweet-natured saint, who loved not onlythe souls of men but all the wild creatures of earthand sea, and may have been intended as a gift to 12. 6 H{/i iim:^mn!0 Anglo-Saxon People cheer his old age. The writer was Eadfrith, whobecame eighth Bishop of Lindisfarne (698-724), andthe large vellum leaves contained the Latin textof the Gospels, written in double columns in asingulariy beautiful script, and divided into para-graphs by illuminated initials. iEthelwald, hissuccessor, provided the book with a cover, whichBilfrith the goldsmith-hermit wrought in silver andembellished with gold and precious stones. Then came the year of blood and fire, 875, whenHalfdan and his Vikings harried in time, the monks fled from Lindisfarne withtheir churls, flocks, and cattle, and bore with them theprecious book and the body of St. Cuthbert; andthe country folk with their children fled with them,crowding to the saint for protection. Clothed inpriestly vestments, the holy man lay in his coffin, hisfeet sandalled, like those of their heathen forefatherswhen they went forth in their death-
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