...celebrated these fossils while yet they bore the name oí suakostones, making his nuns relate " Похг of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When hol}r Hilda prayed ; Themselves within the holy ground, Their .stony folds had often found." The good...

...Walter Scott thus records the legend in his Marmion : "And how the nuns of Whitby told How, of countless snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed. Themselves within their sacred bound, Their stony folds had often found." So lately was this...

...certain cases of bewitchment and the Ammonites are those charmed snakes of the mediaeval legend, " That each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed." The exact affinities of the Belemnite family have formed a subject of controversy of late,...

...on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear. " — They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled....changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd ; Theinselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls'...

...on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." — They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled....how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coif of stone, Themselves, within their holy 1 Their stony folds had often found They told, how sea-fowls'...

...imagination. The evening talk of the nuns, however, commemorates the true legends of the place — " — how of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves within their holy bound Their stony folds had often found. They told how seafowls'...

...was often cut into the form of a serpent's head, or even a stone head fixed on them. In the lines — Of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed,* Sir W. Scott alludes to the legend of the miraculous transformation of snakes by some of the...

...labouring on our harbour-pier. Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear," They told, how in their convent ri/ll A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled;...how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coif of stone, When holy Hilda prayed; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds hart...

...the imagination. But the evening talk of the nuns commemorates the true legends of the place: — ' How of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed : Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told how sea-fowls'...

...the imagination. But the evening talk of the nuns commemorates the true legends of the place: — ' How of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed : Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told how sea-fowls'...