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Legenʹda Auʹrea

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by Jacques de Voragine. A collection of monkish legends in Latin. (1230–1298.)

The Golden Legend, of Longfellow, is a semi-dramatic poem taken from an old German tale by Hartmann von der Aur, called Poor Henry. (Twelfth century.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.