Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Prince of Wales' Motto_ (Vol. iii., p. 106.).--The Query of EFFESSA is one
of great interest to us "Taffies," but I wish to add the following to it.
Is there any foundation for the idea, which we so strenuously maintain,
that "_Ich Dien_" is a misspelled edition of "_Eich Dyn_," "Behold the
man:" and that the motto was bestowed on Edward of Carnarvon in consequence
of his royal father having learned these two Welsh words, and made use of
them when he presented his infant to the assembled tribes as a prince who
could "speak no word of English?"
SELEUCUS.
_Borrow's Danish Ballads._--The singular author of _Lavengro_, Mr. Geo.
Borrow, some years ago published certain translations of Danish or other
northern ballads, with which I have never been able to meet. Can you or any
of your readers furnish me with the title of the book and publisher's name?
My curiosity respecting it has again been aroused somewhat strongly by the
account in _Lavengro_ of the way in which he began to study Danish. It
might afford a good lesson to all _young_ "philologers."
I presume that, at the mature age of "NOTES AND QUERIES," commonplace
compliments as to its usefulness and high general value, begin to be very
stale; but I cannot close without a hearty "God speed" to you in your
labours.
BRUNO.
_Head of the Saviour._--Can any of your readers give me some information
about an engraving of our Saviour, which may just now be seen in many of
the London print-shops? It represents the side-face, and is said to be a
fac-simile of a likeness engraved on an emerald by order of some Roman
Emperor, and which served as the ransom of some other famous person (who, I
quite forget). Is this really the truth?
P. M. M.
_Lines on English History._--_The Sword Flamberg._--I shall be greatly
obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me where I can procure
a copy of some lines on English history, commencing:
"William the Norman conquers England's state--
In his own forest Rufus meets his fate," &c.
They are said to be written by a Roman Catholic gentleman named Chaloner.
I also wish to know something about the old German sword called the
"Flamberg." I have seen it represented as twisted like a column of flame,
and should like to know its history, and whether there was any allusion in
it to the flaming sword that kept the gate of Paradise.
Mention is made of it by Koerner in his poem, "Maenner und Buben:"
"Stosst mit an
Mann fuer Mann
Wer den Flamberg schwingen kann."
Can your correspondents tell me, also, whether there is such a phrase,
expressive of the place where four roads met, as a "four warnt way," and
whence its origin, and how properly spelt?
AN ENGLISH MOTHER.
_Denarius Philosophorum._--Can you inform me what the inscription "Denarius
Philosophorum" means, on Bishop Thornborough's monument in Worcester
Cathedral?
D. Y.
_"Sees Good in everything."_--Where does the line,
"Sees good in everything, and God in all."
come from?
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