Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hildesheim

A monk of Hildesheim doubting how with God a thousand years could be as one day, listened to the singing of a bird in a wood, as he thought for three minutes, but found the time had been three hundred years. Longfellow has borrowed this tale and introduced it in his Golden Legend. (See Felix.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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