and thus cried in his fall, 'God, have mercy on our souls.'
Then the heathen king commanded to strike off his head
and his right arm, and to set them up as a mark [trophy],
Then after the slaying of Oswald his brother Oswy
succeeded to the kingdom of Northumbria, and rode with an army
to where his brother's head was fastened on a stake,
and took the head and his right hand,
and with reverence brought them to Lindisfarne church.
Then was fulfilled, as we said before
that his right hand continueth whole with the flesh,
without any corruption, as the bishop had said.
The arm was laid reverently in a shrine
wrought of silver-work in Saint Peter's Minster
within the town of Bamborough, by the sea-strand,
and lieth there as sound as when it was cut off.
His brother's daughter afterward became Queen of Mercia,
and asked for his bones and brought them to Lindsey,
to Bardney Minster, which she greatly loved.
But the monks would not, by reason of human error,
receive the Saint, but they pitched a tent
over the holy bones that were within the hearse.
Behold then God showed that he was a holy Saint,
so that a heavenly light, being extended over the tent,
stood up to heaven like a lofty sunbeam
all the night long, and the people beheld it
throughout all the province, greatly wondering.
Then the monks were much affrighted,
and prayed then in the morning that they might reverently receive
the Saint, him whom they had before refused.
Then they washed the holy bones, and bare them reverently
to a shrine in the Church, and laid them up.
And there were healed through his holy merits
