EDEN HALL, LUCK OF

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EDEN HALL, LUCK OF , an old painted drinking goblet pre, served at Eden

Hall

HALL
HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in
Tirol
- TIROL (or TYROL 1)
and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger.
Halle
- HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
- HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)
)
HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
EDWARD
- EDWARD
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EDWARD
- EDWARD
(c. 1498-1547)
HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

,Cumberland, the seat of the Musgrave family. It is of enamelled or painted glass and is believed to date from the loth century. It is of

fair

FAIR

size and has the letters I.H.S. on the top. Round the vase is the famous verse given below. A legend involving the fortunes of the Musgraves attaches to this cup. In the grounds of Eden

Hall

is a

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

called St Cuthbert's Well, and the story is that one of the earliest of the Musgraves surprised the fairies feasting and making merry round the well. He snatched at the goblet from which the Fairy King was drinking and made off with it. The fairies pursued him to his castle, but failed to catch him. The Fairy King acknowledged his defeat and gave the cup as a prize to Musgrave, but warned him that the

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut.
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

carried with it a

condition

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

:
" When this cup shall break or fall,
Farewell the luck of Eden Hall."
There are variants of this legend, but substantially they agree. Possessed of the lucky cup the knight of Musgrave is said to have at once prospered in a love-suit which had till then gone against him. There is a curious poem on the cup called " The Drinking Match at Eden Hall," by Philip, duke of Wharton, a parody on the ballad of Chevy Chase. This is reprinted in full in Edward Walford's Tales of

Great

GREAT

Families (1877, vol. II), under the heading, " The witty Duke of Wharton." In Longfellow's famous poem the goblet is represented as having been broken.

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