Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Curious Myths of the Middle AgesOr that last scene, when the trumpet sounds and earth is shivering to its foundations, the fire is bubbling forth through the rents in its surface, and the dead are coming together ¿esh to ¿esh, and bone to bone, and muscle to muscle - then the weary man sits down and casts o¿' his shoes!Strange sights are around him, he sees them not, strange sounds assail his ears, he hears but one the trumpet-note which gives the signal for him to stay his wanderings and rest his weary feet.It is possible to linger over those noble woodcuts, and learn from them something new each time that we study them, they are picture-poems full of latent depths of thought. And now let us to the history of this most thrilling of all Mediaeval myths.The words of the Gospel contain the germs out of which the story has developed. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom are our Lord's words, which I can hardly think apply to the destruction of Jerusalem, as commentators explain it to escape the difficulty. That some should live to see Jeru salem destroyed was not very surprising, and hardly needed the emphatic Verily which Christ only used when speaking something of peculiarly solemn or mysterious import.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.