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When at last a beam of the sun touched her face, she was transformed, and flew away as a golden duck (Deutscher Glaube und Branch, i. 68, 69). The saintly legends of the Middle Ages bear frequent testimony to the appearance of birds connected with death and the world to come. The Swedish story of St. Botvid, the patron of sailors and fishermen, relates, for instance, that its hero, who was the son of an English merchant of Bjorke, met his end by the hands of a traitorous slave. After the murder... a white bird came to his brother Bjorn, who was searching for him, and conducted him to the spot where the corpse lay. It then took flight, and was seen no more. The concep- tion of a saintly soul ascending to heaven in the shape of a snow-white pigeon is to be found in the hymn of Prudentius to St. Eulalia, written probably about a. D. 400, and it occurs again in the account of her life by Adonis, Archbishop of Vienne. A similar story is told of St. Scholastica, the sister of St. Benedict ; and it is related of St.
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