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A little wrestling between friends never hurt anyone.
Tragedy never meant to be.
Carlo Magno: le tante donne e i tanti figli http://www.diggita.it/v.php?id=1627560
La parola non proferita. Manzoni e l'amore
La parola non proferita. Manzoni e l’amore
“Amor tremendo è il mio.
Tu nol conosci ancora; oh! tutto ancora
Non tel mostrai; tu eri mio: secura
Nel mio gaudio io tacea; né tutta mai
Questo labbro pudico osato avria
Dirti l’ebbrezza del mio cor segreto.
– Scacciala, per pietà! Vedi; io la temo,
Come una serpe: il guardo suo m’uccide.
– Sola e debol son io: non sei tu il mio
Unico amico? Se fui tua, se alcuna
Di me dolcezza avesti… oh! non…
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♕ // Ermengarda (Pavia, 754-776)
daughter of Desiderius, king of the Lombards, and his queen, Ansa; wife of Charlemagne from 770 to 771. Her true name unknown, she is either called Desiderata or Berterada by historians. Ermengarda is the name Alessandro Manzoni gave her in the Adelchi (1822).
Kirkwall, Orkney. Work on the Romanesque cathedral of St Magnus was initiated by St Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, a Norwegian Earl of Orkney, in 1137. Rögnvald would later sail to the Holy Land on pilgrimage, and during this voyage he is known to have stopped in Narbonne, an Occitan city state in the sphere of influence of the County of Toulouse. There he met the young Viscountess Ermengarda, by whose beauty he was moved to compose the following beautiful Skaldic verse:
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Víst 'r at frá berr flestum,
Fróða meldrs, at góðu
velskúfaðra vífa
vöxtr þinn, Bil hin svinna;
skorð lætr hár á herðar
haukvallar sér falla
(átgjörnum rauðk erni
ilka) gult sem silki.
.
For certain, wise girl,
Your flowing hair
Is the loveliest among women
Well tasselled with sea-kings' corn.
The prop of a hawk's perch
Permits her hair to fall to her shoulders-
I reddened the claws of a ravenous hawk-
Golden, like silk.
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This vigorous, poetic vision of masculine and feminine elements was the first of a series of pieces written by Rögnvald for Ermengarda. He returned to Orkney in late 1155. Three years later he was killed in battle, and buried at St Magnus. Miracles were alleged to have occurred at his tomb, and he was canonised in 1192 by Pope Celestine III. The Orkney Isles were to become politically a part of Scotland in 1468.