{"id":144716,"date":"2026-04-23T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144716"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:37:20","slug":"eleanor-parker-a-st-georges-day-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144716","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Parker&#8211;A St George&#8217;s Day Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The reference in the second stanza is to the legend that St George had appeared above the battle at Agincourt in 1415 and brought victory to the English. (The manuscript in which this carol appears is dated to between 1430 and 1444, so this is an up-to-date reference.) &#8216;Our Lady&#8217;s knight&#8217; is to be taken quite literally: in medieval tradition St George was closely associated with the Virgin, and one strand of his legend tells how she brought him back from the dead to fight the dragon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/st-georges-day-carol.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Enfors we us with all our might<br>To love Seint George, our Lady&#39;s knight.&#39;<br><br>A medieval English carol to St George, which credits him with helping to bring victory at the Battle of Agincourt: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ssUo1bJI0Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/ssUo1bJI0Y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c3flslhwM3\">pic.twitter.com\/c3flslhwM3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/2047204487115186440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reference in the second stanza is to the legend that St George had appeared above the battle at Agincourt in 1415 and brought victory to the English. (The manuscript in which this carol appears is dated to between 1430<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144716\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,199,183,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144721,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144716\/revisions\/144721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}