Noma/sko/lan

Lanercost Chronicle

[Latinsk tekst mangler...]

At this time the King of Norway died, leavin as successor hsi son called Magnus; who hearing that the King of Scotland had an amiable, beauful a<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1288167646081_936" />nd attrative daughter, a virgin, of suitable age for himself (being a handsome youth of about eighteen years), could not rest until a formal mission, divines as well as nobles, had been sent twice to obtain her as hsi spouse in marriage and consort on the throne. But before I bring ot an end the narrative of this marriage, let me relate to the priase of God and his servant, what was told by one of the emissaries about his king [to show] to what height human affection may be carried.

The father of this king being deeply attached to the religion of S. Francis, <span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1288167764377_425" />encouraged the [Franciscan] brethren above all others, and interested himself diligently in their schools of sacred theology, where, also, he set up for himself a mausoleum. It happened that the Queen brought forth her first-born on the said saint's day [16 July], to the shame rather than to the joy, of the realm, [for it] resembled more the offspring of a bear than a man, as it were a formless lump of flesh. When this was announced to the king, strong in faith, he said, 'Wrap it in clean linen and place it on the latar of S. Francis at the time of the celebration.'

Which having been fulfilled, when they came at the end of the service to take away what they