7/63 I have endeavoured to translate it literally. Oddoul felt himself pushed violently out. Scarcely had he gone down into the street than a chamber-pot was poured over his head; and he thought: "Mysterious are thy designs, O Lord, and thy ways past finding out." II. DRACO THE GREAT (Translation of the Relics of St.Orberosia) The direct posterity of Brian the Good was extinguished about the year 900 in the person of Collic of the Short Nose. A cousin of that prince, Bosco the Magnanimous, succeeded him, and took care, in order to assure himself of the throne, to put to death all his relations. |