Among the whispering leaves
Jun 17, 2020
2 minutes
Illustration by Amy Jeffs
Within months, she had memorised her psalms, wore a hairshirt, ate only herbs and barley bread and drank nothing but water
THE Old English name Friðusw ī þ (pronounced Frithuswith) evokes the sound of wind through leaves. It takes us back to the
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