Қасиетті Эулалияның жырлары

The Sequence of Saint Eulalia, also known as the Canticle of Saint Eulalia is the earliest surviving piece of French hagiography and one of the earliest extant texts in the vernacular langues d'oïl (Old French). It dates from around 880. Eulalia of Mérida was an early Christian martyr from Mérida, Spain, who was killed during the Persecution of Diocletian around 304. Her legend is recounted in the 29 verses of the Sequence, in which she resists pagan threats, bribery and torture from the pagan emperor Maximian. She miraculously survives being burned at the stake, but is finally decapitated. She then ascends to heaven in the form of a dove. The Sequence was composed in verse around 880, soon after the rediscovery of the relics of a saint of the same name, Eulalia of Barcelona, in 878.

The Eulalia text is a sequence or "prose" consisting of 14 assonant couplets, each written on one line and separated by a punctus, followed by a final unpaired coda verse. The Sequence follows no strict meter. Most of the couplets consist of two ten syllable verses, although some have 11, 12, or 13 syllables. Both the vernacular Sequence and the Latin poem that precedes it show similarities with the hymn to Eulalia in the Peristephanon, by the 4th century Christian poet Prudentius. A transcription of the original text is provided below (with abbreviations expanded and some word boundaries inserted), along with a reconstructed phonetic transcription and an English translation. TextReconstructed pronunciationTranslationitalic=nobwᴐnə pyltsɛlə fyθ əylaljəbɛl avrəθ kᴐrps bɛlədzou̯r anəməvᴐldrənt la vei̯ntrə li dɛə enəmivᴐldrənt la fai̯rə diavlə sɛrvirelə nᴐnt ɛskoltəθ les mals konseʎɛrskelə dɛə rənei̯əθ ki mæ̃nt sys en tsjɛlnə pᴐr ᴐr nəð ardʒɛnt nə parəmɛntspᴐr mənatsə rei̯jɛl nə prei̯əmɛntnylə kᴐzə non la pᴐu̯rəθ omkə plei̯ɛrla polə sɛmprə non amast lə dɛə mənɛstjɛrɛ pᴐrᴐ fyθ prəzɛntɛðə maksimjɛnki rei̯s ɛrəθ a tsels dis sovrə pai̯jɛnsel li ənᴐrtəθ dont lei̯ nonkə tʃjɛltkeð elə fɥiəθ lə nom krestjɛnelent aðynəθ lə swᴐn elemɛntmjɛls sostɛndrei̯əθ les ɛmpɛðəmɛntskelə pɛrdesə sa virdʒinitɛθpᴐrᴐs fyrəθ mᴐrtə a ɡrand ᴐnɛstɛθents enl fᴐu̯ la dʒətɛrənt kom ardə tᴐstelə kolpəs non avrəθ pᴐrᴐ nos kᴐi̯sta tsə nos vᴐldrəθ konkrei̯ðrə li rei̯s pai̯jɛnsað ynə spɛðə li rᴐvɛrəθ tᴐlir lə tʃjɛfla dᴐmnidzɛlə tselə kᴐzə non kontrədistvᴐlt lə səylə laɕjɛr si rwᴐvəθ kristen fiɡyrə də kᴐlom vᴐləθ a tsjɛltɥiθ oram kə pᴐr nos deɲəθ prei̯jɛrkeð avɥisəθ də nos kristəs mɛrtsiθpᴐst la mᴐrt ɛð a lɥi nos lai̯st vənirpar sou̯və kləmɛntsəEulalia was a good girl,She had a beautiful body, a soul more beautiful still. The enemies of God wanted to overcome her,they wanted to make her serve the devil. She does not listen to the evil counsellors,(who want her) to deny God, who lives up in heaven. Not for gold, nor silver, nor jewels,not for the king's threats or entreaties,nothing could ever persuade the girlnot to love continually the service of God. And for this reason she was brought before Maximian,who was king in those days over the pagans. He exhorts her — but she does not care —to abandon the Christian name;She gathers up her strength." / "And subsequently worship his god. She would rather undergo persecutionThan lose her spiritual purity. For these reasons she died in great honor. They threw her into the fire so that she would burn quickly. She had no sins, for this reason she did not burn. The pagan king did not want to give in to this;He ordered her head to be cut off with a sword. The girl did not oppose that idea:She wants to abandon earthly life, and she calls upon Christ. In the form of a dove she flew to heaven. Let us all pray that she will deign to pray for usThat Christ may have mercy on usAnd may allow us to come to Him after deathThrough His grace.