Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . all the writers, who (following themonkish Latin of the Breviary) write them mecha and merens. The first word would be quiteunmeaning, and the latter would convey a meaning the very opposite of what it was intended toexpress, for the lady was anything but a deserving 26 The Bird. out of envy, extinguished the fire, whereupon Kentigern when he awokebroke off a frozen branch from a neighbouring hazel, and, breathing onit in the name of the holy Trinity, it immediately burst into flame. Thisst
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . all the writers, who (following themonkish Latin of the Breviary) write them mecha and merens. The first word would be quiteunmeaning, and the latter would convey a meaning the very opposite of what it was intended toexpress, for the lady was anything but a deserving 26 The Bird. out of envy, extinguished the fire, whereupon Kentigern when he awokebroke off a frozen branch from a neighbouring hazel, and, breathing onit in the name of the holy Trinity, it immediately burst into flame. Thisstory forms the subject of the third lesson for the saints day, and iscommemorated in the lines of the hymn— Ardent rami congelatiSacro flatu inflammati. It is interesting to observe, in passing, that the constant maintenanceof the fire referred to in this legend appears to have been one of thecustoms introduced by the Asiatic ancestors of the ancient British popu-lation. In prehistoric times the sacred fire of the Aryans was keptperpetually burning on the family hearth. It was regarded in some sort,indeed, as a living household deity who watched over the family, andwhen the members met at meals a portion was always first offered tothe fire.^ The legend of the bird is also curious. In most of the verbal des-criptions of the city arms it is called a bird merely.
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