1187-8 young girls in the church, or in the churchyard, or in a round dance that circles around the church-yard with a sung refrain suddenly drop to the ground, act out with hands and feet the tasks they performed illicitly on feast days, and finally, like those awakened, are led within the church to the altar with their offerings in Brecon/Aberhonddu

Entry:

pp. 53-54 / pp. 329-30
BRECON/ABERHONDDU
1187/8
Gerald of Wales’ Itinerarium Kambriae BL: Cotton Domitian A.I
ff 66-6v*

Volume:

Records of Early English Drama: Wales. Edited by David N. Klausner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Category:

REED

Tags:

Wales