BL Harley 2253 (folio132) is a 13thC. copy of a document from Much Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire, UK. The Legend of Etfridus the Priest was composed around CE 1000, in the Ramsey Abbey style (i.e. polysyllabic, with classical allusions). Unlike the Aeneid this is not written as an eyewitness account; Etfrid describes (in rhymed prose) what would have happened to the King whose dream he interpreted.

v. Rex desierit loqui/ subinsert assecla servus "Rex gratulare tuae visionis et... "

v. The King had no sooner stopped talking than Christ’s humble servant began: ‘Take cheer from your vision... '

'Teterrimi canes/ et immanes/
sunt sulliginosi Plutonis satellites/ vite et salutis tue mortiferi hostes /
quorum tu faucibus ut praemium et devoratio[nem] daberis /
ubi devoratus semper devorandus eris /
ut si usque moriens/ et numquam morte finiens/
perpetuis terroribus /sulphureis fetoribus /
dentium stauribus/ ignium ardoribus/
poenis immanibus / et intolerabilibus /
cum ijmis in tartaris/ medio crucieris/
nisi funditus abnegaveris paganismum /
et ex toto tue corde converteris ad XPum /
dei unius filium// '

'Those terrifying and brutal dogs [pitch-black thegns of Pluto] are mortal enemies of your life and salvation, into whose jaws you will be given as a reward and a morsel, where the devoured will always be ripe for devouring, to be at the point of dying but never achieving death, in unremitting terror, with sulphurous stench, with the rasping of teeth, with brutal and unendurable punishments. With the wicked in the centre of hell you will be tortured, unless you completely turn away from paganism, and are converted with all your heart, to Christ the son of the only God.’

BL Harley 2253 (folio132) is a 13thC. copy of a document from Much Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire, UK. The Legend of Etfridus the Priest was composed around CE 1000, in the Ramsey Abbey style (i.e. polysyllabic, with classical allusions). Unlike the Aeneid this is not written as an eyewitness account; Etfrid describes (in rhymed prose) what would have happened to the King whose dream he interpreted.

v. Rex desierit loqui/ subinsert assecla servus "Rex gratulare tuae visionis et... "

v. The King had no sooner stopped talking than Christ’s humble servant began: ‘Take cheer from your vision... '

'Teterrimi canes/ et immanes/
sunt sulliginosi Plutonis satellites/ vite et salutis tue mortiferi hostes /
quorum tu faucibus ut praemium et devoratio[nem] daberis /
ubi devoratus semper devorandus eris /
ut si usque moriens/ et numquam morte finiens/
perpetuis terroribus /sulphureis fetoribus /
dentium stauribus/ ignium ardoribus/
poenis immanibus / et intolerabilibus /
cum ijmis in tartaris/ medio crucieris/
nisi funditus abnegaveris paganismum /
et ex toto tue corde converteris ad XPum /
dei unius filium// '

'Those terrifying and brutal dogs [pitch-black thegns of Pluto] are mortal enemies of your life and salvation, into whose jaws you will be given as a reward and a morsel, where the devoured will always be ripe for devouring, to be at the point of dying but never achieving death, in unremitting terror, with sulphurous stench, with the rasping of teeth, with brutal and unendurable punishments. With the wicked in the centre of hell you will be tortured, unless you completely turn away from paganism, and are converted with all your heart, to Christ the son of the only God.’