A small point about this song, which intrigues me too. 'Through the glass window shines the sun, How should I love and I so young?'
The image of sunshine through glass is used in C14/15 poems about the Virgin Mary. 'As the sonne shone though glas, So Jesu in her body was.' Sunlight passes through the glass without altering it in any way, hence its use as an image for Mary's sinless conception of Jesus. Sunlight through a glass window appears in many paintings of the Annunciation.
I have no idea whether this is connected to the song, which I heard sung last night for the first time last night as part of a Christmas Eve concert. I had no idea that the tune was so strange - doubtless mediaeval.
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Date: December 25th, 2006 12:13 am (UTC)'Through the glass window shines the sun,
How should I love and I so young?'
The image of sunshine through glass is used in C14/15 poems about the Virgin Mary. 'As the sonne shone though glas,
So Jesu in her body was.'
Sunlight passes through the glass without altering it in any way, hence its use as an image for Mary's sinless conception of Jesus. Sunlight through a glass window appears in many paintings of the Annunciation.
I have no idea whether this is connected to the song, which I heard sung last night for the first time last night as part of a Christmas Eve concert.
I had no idea that the tune was so strange - doubtless mediaeval.
Anthea Fleming
Melbourne