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Excerpt from Contributions to Old English Literature
In the second group, to which C and D belong 2, Christ's letter has been brought into connexion with a certain deacon Nial, who comes to life again after having been dead for some time, and announces that fire is to fall upon the earth in consequence of men's disbelief in the heavenly letter. This version concludes with the statement that F lorentius was Pope, and Petrus Bishop of Rome, when the letter was found upon St. Peter's altar.
In the third group Peter, Bishop of Antioch, is the recipient of the letter from heaven. Of this group Priebsch has only one oe. Representative, viz. E, but there is a second version belonging to it (f) which, as it has not yet been published, I give below in full. It is contained in the eleventh-century ms. 162 (corpus Christi College, Cam bridge), pp. 44 - 52. In printing I have disregarded the manuscript punctuation, as well as the use of capitals; the contractions are indicated by italics in other respects I have followed the ms.
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