[8] Θέλων οὖν ὁ Ὅσιος ἀναλῦσαι τὴν οἰκοδομὴν αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ θριαμβεύσῃ αὐτὸν, ἐν μιᾷ κοιμωμένης τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ μόνης, κᾀκείνου προβάλλοντος οἶνον, ἐπέβη πρὸς αὐτὴν ὃ ἀββᾶς Συμεὼν, καὶ ἐχηματίσατο ἀποδύεσθαι τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ, κ.τ.λ. [9] Ὥστε ἔστιν ὅτε ἔβαλλον τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν τὰ ἄσεμνα γύναια εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ,καὶ ἐσίαινον, καὶ ἐκόπταζον, καὶ ἐγαργάλιζον αὐτόν. [10] Ἐβάσταζεν αὐτὸν μία προϊσταμενὴ, καὶ ἄλλη ἑλώριζεν αὐτόν. [11] Πολλάκις δὲ προσποιεῖσθαι καταφιλεῖν τὰς δούλας. No wonder if one of them said, “Ο Σαλὸς Συμεὼν ἐβιάςατό με.” The maid’s mistress indignantly scolded Symeon, who replied with a smile, “Ἄφες, ἄφες, ταπεινὴ, ἄρτι γεννᾶ σοι, καὶ ἔχεις μικρὸν Συμεών.” [12] Σειρὰν σαλσικίων. [13] Σιλίγνια, καὶ πλακοῦντας, καὶ σφαίρια, καὶ ὀψάρια, καὶ οἰνάρια διάφορα, ψαθύρια, καὶ γλυκὺ, καὶ ἁπλῶς ὅσα πάντα ἔχει ὁ βίος λιμβά. [14] Ἔστι γὰρ ὅτε καὶ τοῦτο ἔλεγε πρὸς μίαν τῶν ἑταιρίδων· θέλεις ἔχο σε φίλην καὶ δίδω σοι ἑκατὸν ὁλοκοτίνα. [15] Both are published in the _Acta Sanctorum_ for June, T.I., pp. 237-260, with notes by Papebroeck, the Bollandist. [16] “Monachus aspectu venerabilis, barba prolixa, corpore nudus, capillis canus.” This old monk was St. Luke the Stylite, appearing in vision. [17] “Unus--cum gravi baculo ascendens ad eum, ipsum graviter ac dure cædens, de ecclesiæ trullo descendere fecit, cum multa festinantia et furore.”--_Fr. Barth._ [18] The biographer thinks a dolphin must have bitten his cords, and thus freed him. [19] A blending is a changeling, or one who is half troll, half human. [20] They form a huge ancient moraine. [21] It much resembles the beautiful Marjelen Sea, familiar to the visitor to Aegischhorn. [22] The writer has been over this portion of the ground, and knows the course pursued. [23] It is not easy to make out what fell is meant. Possibly it may be the ridge called Thorir’s Head. [24] In another version one ball was _gold_, the other _silver_. I sent this story to Mr. Henderson, and it is included in the first edition of his _Folklore of the Northern Counties_, but omitted in the second. [25] The portion within brackets I got from a different informant. The first version was incomplete; the girls had forgotten how the ball was recovered. They forgot also what happened with the second ball. [26] Powel and Magnusson, _Legends of Iceland_ (1864), p. 161. [27] Cf. Xenoph. _Memor._ IV. vii. 7. [28] The apocryphal Lith. 289. [29] “Solis gemma candida est, et ad speciem sideris in orbem fulgentes spargit radios” (_Hist. Nat._ xxxvi. 10, 67.) [30] Grimm, _D. M._ p. 665. [31] _Hist. Anglic._ i. 27. See also Gervase of Tilbury, cxlv., for an account of the subterranean world reached by the cave in the Peak of Derby. [32] _Itin. Camb._ i. 8. [33] See for account of the gem-lighted underworld, Mannhardt, _Germ. Mythol._ (1858), p. 447. [34] Egilson, _Lex. poet. linguæ Sept._ Men = monile, thesaurus, saxum, lapis.