Hildesheim.

A monk of Hildesheim doubting how with God a thousand years could be as one day, listened to the singing of a bird in a wood, as he thought for three minutes, but found the time had been three hundred years. Longfellow has borrowed this tale and introduced it in his Golden Legend. (See Felix.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Highgate
Highland Bail
Highland Mary
Highlands of Scotland (The)
Highlanders of Attica
Highness
Highwaymen
Hilary Term
Hildebrand (Meister)
Hildebrod (Duke)
Hildesheim
Hill (Sir John)
Hill-folk
Hill-people or Hill-folk
Hill Tribes
Hills
Himiltrude
Hinc illæ Lacrymæ
Hind
Hinda
Hinder

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Monk listening to a Bird

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