Beschrijving
“The Time Has Come but Not the Man.” A water spirit shouts three times from a river, “The hour has passed and the man did not come” [D1311.11.1]. The call is heard far outside the town. A young person runs to the river and drowns.
Motief
D1311.11.1
Commentaar
Documented by Gregory of Tours, Liber in gloria martyrum (No. 1) and later by Gervase of Tilbury, Otia Imperialia (dec. III).
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