In the Mount of Pion, yonder, is the Cave of the Seven Sleepers. Once upon a time, about fifteen hundred years ago, seven young men lived near each other in Ephesus, who belonged to the despised sect of the Christians.
Such is the story of the Seven Sleepers, (with slight variations,) and I know it is true, because I have seen the cave myself.
We shouted back loud enough to wake the
Seven Sleepers - I never could understand myself why it should take more noise to wake
seven sleepers than one - and, after what seemed an hour, but what was really, I suppose, about five minutes, we saw the lighted boat creeping slowly over the blackness, and heard Harris's sleepy voice asking where we were.
The Works of Chardri: Three Poems in the French of Thirteenth-Century England, The Life of the
Seven Sleepers, The Life of St.
The first four essays are on Old English: Gabriele Cocco offers a reinterpretation of the archer depicted on the Frank's Casket; Eric Stanley examines the half-lines of Old English verse; Veronka Szoke looks at a judgement theme in the Old English Exodus; Maria Elena Ruggerini places the Old English
Seven Sleepers in its continental Latin tradition.
The 20 papers from that gathering consider such topics as the prefiguration of some biblical themes in pharaonic iconography and theology, whether Copts practiced human sacrifice, Roman citizens without Roman privileges, the legend of the
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in Coptic literature, and new doxologies in Coptic.
His first two solo albums, The
Seven Sleepers Den and We Went Riding, were both well received.