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CEEATION. 565
The oldest version is to be found in the Rituale ecclesiae
Dunelmensis (Lond. 1839), in which a scribe of the 10th century
has interpolated the following passage, an AS. translation being
interlined with the Latin :
Octo pondera, de quibus factus JElite pundo, of ];em aworden
est Adam, pondus limi, inde is Adam, pund lames, of ]?on
factus (sic) est caro ; pondus aworden is flcesc; pund fires,
ignis, inde rubens est sanguis of ]?on read is blod and hat;
et calidus ; pondus salis, inde pund saltes, of p>on sindon salto
sunt salsae lacrimae ; pondus tehero ; pund ]?eawes, of J?on
roris, unde factus est sudor ; aworden is swat; pund blost-
pondus floris, inde est varietas mes, of J>on
is fagung egena;
oculorum ; pondus nubis, inde pund wolcnes, of ]xm is onstyd-
est instabilitas mentium ; pon- fullnisse polita ; pund windes,
dus venti, inde est anhela fri- of )?on is oro&cald; pund 1
gida; pondus 1
gratiae, inde est of ]?on is sensus hominis.
froht monnes.
gefe,
A similar addition is made to a MS. of the Code of Emsig (Riclithofen,
p. 211): God scop thene eresta meneska, thet was Adam,
fon achta wendem. thet benete fon tha stene, thet flask fon there
erthe, thet blod fon tha wetere, tha herta fon tha winde, thene
thochta fon tha wolken, thene suet fon tha dawe, tha lokkcir foil
tha gerse, tha dgene fon there sunna, and tha blerem on (blew
into him) thene helga 6m (breath), and tha scop he Eva fon
sine ribbe, Adames liana/ The handwriting of this document
is only of the 15th cent., but it may have been copied from an
older MS. of the Emsig Code, the Code itself being of the 14th
cent.
1 This pound of grace conies in so oddly, that I venture to guess an omission
between the words, of perhaps a line, which described the 8th material. The two
accounts that follow next, after naming eight material ingredients, bring in the holy
breath or spirit as something additional, to which this gift of grace would fairly
correspond. Another AS. version, given in SUPPL., from the Saturn and Solomon
(Thorpe s Anal. p. 95, ed. Kemble p. 180), is worth comparing: here foldan
pund becomes flcesc, fyres pund Hod, windes p. ceffung, wolcnes p. moffes un-
BtafJelfaestnes, gyfe p. fat and gepang, blostmena p. edgena missenlicnist, deawes
p. swat, sealtes p. tearas. Here gyfe is right in the middle of the sentence: can
it be, that both gefe and gyfe are a corruption of Geofon the sea god, gifen the
sea (supra, p. 239), which in Christian times had become inadmissible, perhaps
unintelligible ? It would be strange if water, except as dew, were made no use of ;
and the sea supplying thought would agree with the French account, which
ascribes wisdom to him that has an extra stock of sea in him. TKANS.