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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:32:17 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
I don´t know if this information is of specific interest to the VN-list.
I´m sending it on to you anyway because, while continuing to read "Ada in
Portuguese", I decided to check the link I already knew existed between St.
Ursula and St. Cordula and the legend concerning their martyrdom.
After searching in the Google for "Jeunes Martyres" I came to the reference I
had been looking for, St. Ursula, that came rather close to B.Boyd´s own
anotations to Ada dealing with "young martyrs". He doesn´t mention neither
Ursula nor Cordula as "young virgins and martyrs" in these notes.
After trying to find a specific link bt. Ursula and Cordula I reached also
Lear´s Cordelia.
There are many references to Cordelia and Lear in Ada, also to St.Ursula when
VN introduces Flaubert.
Also the theme of Ursus and Bear is often brought up in relation to Lucette,
plus a precocious reference to "b.e.a.r" concerning the list adolescent Ada and
Van discover in the attic.
I- Extracted from the first Google page on "Jeunes Martyres":
LĂ©gende de sainte Ursule
... ne pouvait honorer aucune de ces martyres en particulier. Les fouilles
archéologiques
permirent de découvrir des ossements de jeunes femmes décédées ...
www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/amnord/legende-Ste-Ursule.htm - 7k - Em cache - Páginas
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Afternote to Ada, Part One, Chapter 14 - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... will associate Lucette more and more insistently with martyrdom, until Van
meets
her in 1901, a few days before her suicide, in the rue des Jeunes Martyres. ...
www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/ada/ada114aft.htm - 26k - Em cache - Páginas
semelhantes
Ada, Part Three, Chapter 3 - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... 459.20, cigars) and, leaving the hotel by a side exit, crossed the rue.
des Jeunes Martyres for a drink at Ovenman's. [ 459 ]. Upon ...
www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/ada/ada33.htm - 77k - Em cache - Páginas
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2. La légende de sainte Ursule et des Onze Mille Vierges
1 Sainte Ursule
L'histoire relative à sainte Ursule est difficile à vérifier en raison de
témoignages écrits fiables. On sait qu'une jeune fille nommée Ursule, fille
d'un roi chrétien breton, vécut à la toute fin du IIIe et au début du IVe
siècle. On sait également que cette jeune fille, ainsi que plusieurs autres,
aurait été demandée en mariage par un prince païen d'origine germanique (...)
elles auraient été capturées à Cologne par les Huns, puis martyrisées et mises
Ă mort parce qu'elles ne voulaient pas trahir leur foi. Les jeunes filles
furent enterrées dans une église de Cologne.
(...) Le culte d'Ursule et des Onze Mille Vierges a connu un immense succès au
Moyen Ă‚ge, surtout en Allemagne, aux Pays-Bas, dans le nord de la France et en
Italie (...) Sainte Ursule fut reconnue comme la patronne des jeunes filles et
des drapiers, car elle aurait été protégée par un manteau miraculeux. Le
calendrier grégorien a fixé la date d'anniversaire de sainte Ursule et de ses
Onze Mille Vierges au 21 octobre (...). Christophe Colomb avait fait de mĂŞme en
1493 en dĂ©couvrant les Ă®les Vierges (nommĂ©es Las VĂrgenes).
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Concerning the Name Cordelia by Sara L. Friedemann
©2000 by Sara L. Friedemann. All rights reserved.
Excerpts:
Cordelia was the name of one of King Lear's daughters in Shakespeare's play by
the same name, first performed in 1608. We find no evidence that any real person
was called Cordelia before Shakespeare borrowed the name from legend for his
character in "King Lear." A similar but probably unrelated saint's name Cordula
was used in Germany in the 16th century, but we find no evidence that it was
used elsewhere.
One hypothesis says that Shakespeare took it from Holinshed's work, published
in 1577, where Cordelia appears as a scribal error for the name of a
British/Welsh legendary character, Cordeilla (...) Another hypothesis argues
that Cordelia derives from Cordula, the name of a 4th century saint who was a
companion of St. Ursula. Cordula is found in Germany as Kordula and Kordel and
was not unpopular in the 16th and 17th century. However, some experts disagree
on this point, and believe that Cordula and Cordelia are not related.
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