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Vaʹnoc

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“Young Vanoc of the beardless face

(Fame spoke the youth of Merlin’s race),

Oʹerpowered at Gyneth’s footstool, bled,

His heart’s blood dyed her sandals red.”


Sir Walter Scott: Bridal of Triermain, ii. 25.

 

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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.

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