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many infirm men of various diseases.

The water with which they had washed the bones

within the church had been poured out

as it were in a corner, and the earth afterward

that had received the water became a remedy to many.

By means of that dust devils were put to flight from men

who before were afflicted with madness

So also from the spot where he fell slain in the battle

men took of the earth for diseased men,

and put it in water for the sick to taste,

and they were healed through the holy man.

A certain wayfaring man rode towards the field,

when his horse became sick, and soon fell down there

rolling all over the earth, most like a mad creature.

"While it was thus rolling about the extensive field,

it came at length where king Oswald

fell in the fight, as we have said before;

and it rose up as soon as it touched the place,

whole in all its limbs, and the master rejoiced thereat;

the rider then went forward on his way

whither he had intended. There was there a maiden

lying in paralysis, long afflicted;

he began to relate what had happened to him during the ride,

and they carried the maiden to the aforesaid place.

Then she fell asleep, and soon afterward awoke,

sound in all her limbs from the terrible disease;

she covered up her head and blithely journeyed home,

going on foot as she had never done before.

Again afterward, a certain horseman bound on an errand

was passing by the same place, and bound up in a cloth

some of the holy dust from the precious place,

and carried it forward with him to where he was hastening.