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Saint Erkenwald is arguably the earliest ghost story in the English Language.
It is an alliterative poem by Ralph Strode, author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the finest poet of the English middle ages. The effect which it has on its audiences is mesmerising.
They follow Bishop Erkenwald down to a bronze-age tomb in the foundations of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, with a living corpse inside. A lover of paradox, Strode saw time as simultaneously a continuum and a series of moments (atoms). Only in the moment can change occur, and a man who has been imprisoned for a…
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