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HRABANUS MAURUS MAGNENTIUS (c. 776-856) , See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:Mainz, and one of the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian See also:age, was See also:born of See also:noble parents at Mainz. Less correct forms of his name are Rabanus and Rhabanus. The date of his See also:birth is uncertain, but in 8oi he received See also:deacon's orders at See also:Fulda, where he had been sent to school; in the following See also:year, at the instance of Ratgar, his See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot, he went together with Haimon (afterwards of See also:Halberstadt) to See also:complete his studies at See also:Tours under See also:Alcuin, who in recognition of his See also:diligence and purity gave him the surname of Maurus, after St Maur the favourite See also:disciple of See also:Benedict. Returning after the See also:lapse of two years to Fulda, he was entrusted with the See also:principal See also:charge of the school, which under his direction See also:rose into a See also:state of See also:great efficiency for that age, and sent forth such pupils at Walafrid See also:Strabo, Servatus See also:Lupus of Ferrieres and Otfrid of See also:Weissenburg. At this See also:period it is most probable that his Excerptio from the See also:grammar of See also:Priscian, See also:long so popular as a See also:text-See also:book during the See also:middle ages, was compiled. In 814 he was ordained a See also:priest; but shortly afterwards, apparently on See also:account of disagreement with Ratgar, he was compelled to withdraw for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time from Fulda. This " banishment " is understood to have occasioned the See also:pilgrimage to See also:Palestine to which he alludes in his commentary on See also:Joshua. He returned to Fulda on the See also:election of a new abbot (Eigil) in 817, upon whose See also:death in 822 he himself became abbot. The duties of this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he discharged with efficiency and success until 842, when, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to secure greater leisure for literature and for devotion, he resigned and retired to the neighbouring See also:cloister of St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's. In 847 he was again constrained to enter public See also:life by his election to succeed Otgar in the archbishopric of Mainz, which see he occupied for upwards of eight years. The principal incidents of See also:historical See also:interest belonging to this period of his life were those which arose out of his relations to See also:Gottschalk (q.v.): they may be regarded as thoroughly typical of that cruel intolerance which he shared with all his contemporaries, and also of that ardent zeal which was See also:peculiar to himself;See also:kings of the heroic age. In See also:Beowulf, where he is called Hrothwulf, he is represented as reigning over See also:Denmark in See also:conjunction with his See also:uncle Hrothgar, one of the three sons of an earlier See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king called Healfdene. In the Old Norse sagas Hrblfe is the son of Helgi (Halga), the son of Halfdan (Healfdene). He is represented as a wealthy and See also:peace-loving monarch similar to Hrothgar in Beowulf, but the latter (Hr6arr, or See also:Roe) is quite overshadowed by his See also:nephew in the See also:Northern authorities. The See also:chief incidents in Hr6lfr's career are the visit which he paid to the See also:Swedish king Attils (Beowulf's Eadgils), of which several different explanations are given, and the See also:war, in which he eventually lost his life, against his See also:brother-in-See also:law Hiorvart5r. The name Kraki (See also:pole-See also:ladder) is said to have been given to him on account of his great height by a See also:young See also:knight named Voggr, whom he handsomely rewarded and who eventually avenged his death on Hiorvar5r. There is no See also:reason to doubt that Hr6lfr was an historical See also:person and that he reigned in Denmark during the See also:early years of the 6th See also:century, but the statement found in all the sagas that he was the stepson of Mils seems hardly compatible with the See also:evidence of Beowulf, which is a much earlier authority.
See Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, pp. 52-68, ed. A. Holder (See also:Strassburg, 1886); and A. Olrik, Danmarks Heltedigtning (See also:Copenhagen, 1903).
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