and carried the holy head home with them,
thanking the Almighty for all His wonders;
but the wolf followed forth with the head
until they came to the town, as if he were tame,
and then turned back again unto the wood.
Then the country-people afterward laid the head
by the holy body, and buried him
as they best might in such haste,
and full soon built a church over him
Then again, after a space, after many years,
when the harrying had ceased, and peace was restored
to the oppressed people, then they came together,
and built a church worthily to the saint,
because that frequently miracles were done at his burial-place,
even at the bede-house where he was buried.
Then desired they to carry the holy body
with popular honour, and to lay it within the church.
Then there was a great wonder, that he was all as whole
as if he were alive, with clean body, '
and his neck was healed which before was cut through,
and there was as it were a silken thread about his neck, all red,
as if to show men how he was slain.
Also the wounds, which the bloodthirsty heathen
had made in his body by their repeated shots,
were healed by the heavenly God;
and so he lieth uncorrupt until this present day,
