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"This Endris Night" (also "Thys Endris Night", "Thys Ender Night" or "The Virgin and Child"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=This Endris Night )〕) is a 15th-century English Christmas carol. It has also appeared under various other spellings.〔 Two versions from the 15th-century survive, one republished in Thomas Wright, ''Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century'' (London: The Percy Society, 1847), and the other in the possession of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, Scotland,〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Hymns and Carols of Christmas )〕 a legal deposit belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, a role which was assumed by the National Library of Scotland from 1925 onwards. All non-legal collections were given to the National Library. It has been praised for the unusual delicacy and lyrical flourish for a poem of the period.〔 The opening lyrics, in the Wright edition, are:〔(Scan of original from archive.org )〕 :Thys endris nyȝth :I saw a syȝth, ::A stare as bryȝt as day; :And ever among :A mayden song ::Lullay, by by, lullay. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「This Endris Night」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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