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Translation by B. FOSSETT LOCK, Barrister-at-Law. 



3 If HERE was in a certain township the daughter of a Monasteries 



founded in 



shepherd, a girl of graceful figure, who earned by Wood, 

 means of her beauty a livelihood which her 

 family had not provided for her. To her a man-el 

 was revealed in a vision namely, that a moon 

 shone out of her womb, and that with the light 

 of it all England was illuminated. In the 

 morning she carried the story to her companions 

 as a jest. It was received by them very seriously, and forthwith 

 came to the ears of the stewardess, who was in the habit of 

 nursing the sons of the king. She made inquiry into the matter, 

 and took the girl into her own house and treated her as a 

 daughter, and brought her up with better food, more delicate 

 raiment, and more polished manners. Not long afterwards 

 Edward, son of King Alfred, passed through the township on a 

 chance journey, and turned aside to visit the house which had 

 formerly been the scene of his earliest childhood ; for he did not 

 think it consistent with his good name to be above paying a 

 visit to his nurse. There, as soon as he saw the girl, he fell in 

 love with her and sought her by night. She became with child 



