C 42 ] ir»£e agcns de Danis initio feculi XI. Angliam invadentibus. “ Erat, inqvit, iis vex- “ ilium miri portend, qvod licet credam effe impoffibile ledori tamen, qvia verum “ eft, verse inferam lcdioni.. Enimvero dum efTet fimpliciffimo candidiffimoqve in- “ rextum ferico nulius figuras in eo inferta efTet imago tempore belli temper in eo. “ videbatur corvus, acfi intextus, in vidoria fuorum qvali hians ore excutiens alas, *' inftabilifqve pedibus & fuis devidis qvietiffimus totoqve corpore demiflus. Qvod “ requirens Thurketillus primi audtor prelii : pugnemus inqvit viriliter focii, nihil “ enim nobis erit periculi: hoc deniqve teflatur inftabilis corvus pradagientis vexilli.” Ftiit etiam Sigurdo Craffo Northumbria comiti, qvi anno MLV. obiit, vexillum Reaveri Land ey, five corvus terrse terror didum. Vide Joh. Brompton, apud Twifden, p. 945 : & Lelandi Itinerar. tom. IV. p. 142. Verum non foli erant Dani, qvi figno corvi utebantur, etenim Norvegos illud diu coluifTe certum eft. Sic Olavi Trygguafonii regis Norvagias anno 1000 mortui vita refert matrem Sigurdi Orcadum comitis filio dedifie “ Vexillum miri artificii in fpeciem corvi efformatum, “ qvi dum vento illud pandebatur, in hoftes volaffe vifus fuerit.” Et qvis netcit corvum in numtnts Olai Norvegi regis Northumbrian eodem fine apparere. Vide Eountaine’s Tabb. in Hickefii Thefauro Antiquitat. Septentr. (/3) Draconibus. omnes fer« nationes originis potiffimum Schyticas pro fignis olim ulse funt, & Si- nenfes, YVandaliqve in hunc diem iis uti gaudent. De Anglis, vide Math. Weft- monafter. De Dacis Claudianus pluribus locis, itemqve Ammianus, libr. xvi. qvi fytcxomiot <P>m^ov}k<x, ea appeliat. De Saxonibus W itichindus Saxo, lib. v. Et tan- tus fuit apud Danos Norvegofqve Draconutn utus, ut non modo. eorundem capita in navium proris erigerent, verum etiam in caudas puppes definere fecerint, qvm. ratio eft, cur naves forma ferpentum fabricate, etiam poll religionis purioris intro- dudionem Dracones fcepius appellentur. Dege vero cautum fuit neqvis pacatatn adiret navi terram, anteqvam Draconis caput in prora eredum abflulerit. .Vide. Egilli Skallagrimii vitam.. Tandem Chpiftiani v- Ctefaris vexilla linqvunt' Eligunt Jignuni crucis Proqve ventofis Draconum Qvos gerebant palliis Prasferunt infigne lignum Qvod Draconem fubdidit. Qvi mos ad Anglos perlatus Mercios puta & Northumbros, ab iis in Norvegiam feculo x tranfiit. Etenim illi non modo in fignis, verum etiam in clypeis aurea cruce ufi funt. Hoc teflatur Snerro Sturhtfon, in vita Olavi Trygguafonii, edit. Skalholt, tom. I. p. 92. “ 1 £>ann tima var Adalbertus Bifkup i Brimum a Saxlandi, lians Lcerifveinn vac “ jrangbrandr fun Vilibaldi greifa af Brimaborg; harm var j?a rofkinn at aldri cr “ Hugbertus af Cantarabyrgi baud Adalberti brodr finom til lin oc gaf honom go- “ dar giafer oc foronautum hans aullum, at JmfTo heimbodi var }>angbiandr med “ bifkupi, oc jia er giafernar voro framhornar. j?a mseltl Hugljertus bifkup til 3 i,ang'

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