"Take the veil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... year 726 a prince named Didan settled at Oxford, and his wife Saxfrida built a nunnery there for her daughter Frideswyde, so that she could "take the veil" in her own church. As she was considered the "flower of all these parts," we could not understand why this was necessary, especially as she was sought in marriage by Algar, King of Leicester, described as "a young and spritely ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor |
