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734 SKY AND STAES.
world Bifrost will break, I find it again in the German belief
during the Mid. Ages that for a number of years before the
be seen : ouch hurt
Judgment-day the rainbow will no longer
ich sagen, daz man sin (the regenpogen) nieht ensehe drizich jar
(30 years) vor deme suontage/ Diut. 3, 61. Hugo von Trim-
berg makes it 40 years (Renner 19837) :
So man den regenbogen siht,
so enzaget diu werlt niht
dan darnach iiber vierzecjar ;
so the rainbow appear, the world hath no fear, until thereafter 40
year. Among the signs the Church enumerates of the approach
of the Last Day, this is not to be found (see Suppl.).