She. H. Rider Haggard
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Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664149381
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VI AN EARLY CHRISTIAN CEREMONY
IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA
STRANGE THYNGS THER BE
[Doggerel couplet from the Sherd of Amenartas]
I inscribe this history to
ANDREW LANG
in token of personal regard
and of
my sincere admiration
for his learning and his works
ORIGINAL PREPARER’S NOTE
This text was prepared from an 1888 edition published by Longmans,
Green, and Co., London. A number of fragments of Greek text, and
sketches, have been omitted due to the difficulty of representing
them as plain text. However, small fragments of Greek have been
transcribed in brackets “{}” using an Oxford English Dictionary
alphabet table, without diacritical marks.
PREPARER’S NOTE—UNICODE EDITION
A number of fragments of Greek and other text, omitted from the
original posting, have been restored in this Unicode text.
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INTRODUCTION
In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection with it is. And so I may as well say at once that I am not the narrator but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my hands.
Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, “vir doctissimus et amicus neus,” at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much struck with the appearance of two persons whom I saw going arm-in-arm down the street. One of these gentlemen was I think, without exception, the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen. He was very tall, very broad, and had a look of power and a grace of bearing that seemed as native to him as it is to a wild stag. In addition his face was almost without flaw—a good face as well as a beautiful one, and when he lifted his hat, which he did