[948] Widukindi Lib. III. cap. 65.—Sigebert. Gemblac. Ann. 966.—Dithmari Chron. Lib. II. cap. viii.—Saxo. Grammat. Hist. Danic. Lib. X. The annalists of Trèves claim the merit of this for their archbishop Poppo, whose pontificate lasted from 1016 to 1047. According to their legend, Poppo not only drew on an iron gauntlet heated to redness, but entered a fiery furnace clad only in a linen garment soaked in wax, which was consumed by the flames without injury to him.—Gest. Trevir. Archiep. cap. xvi. (Martene Ampliss. Collect. IV. 161).
[949] Guibert. Noviogent. de Incarnat. contra Judæos Lib. III. cap. xi. Guibert states that he had this from a Jew, who was an eye-witness of the fact.
Somewhat similar was a volunteer ordeal related by Gregory of Tours, when a Catholic disputing with an Arian threw his gold ring into the fire and when heated to redness placed it in his palm with an adjuration to God that if his faith was true it should not hurt him, which of course proved to be the case.—Greg. Turon. de Gloria Confess, c. xiv.
[950] Legend, de S. Olavo (Langebek II. 548).
[951] Cæsar. Heisterbach. Dial. Mirac. Dist. III. c. xvi. xvii.
[952] Raine’s Church of York (English Historical Review, No. 9, p. 159).
[953] Legg. Scan. Provin. Lib. v. c. 57 (Ed. Thorsen, pp. 139-40).
[954] This text is given by Kausler, Stuttgard, 1839, together with an older one compiled for the lower court of Nicosia.
[955] Pardessus, Us et Coutumes de la Mer, I. 268 sqq.
[956] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 475.