Cumque tempore hiemali defluentibus circa eum semifractarum crustis glacierum, quas et ipse aliquando contriverat quo haberet locum standi sive immergendi in fluvio, dicerent qui videbant: Mirum, frater Drycthelme, hoc enim erat viro nomen, quod tantam frigoris asperitatem ulla ratione tolerare praevales.
And in the winter season, when half broken pieces of ice dropped down all about him, which too he had sometimes broken himself, to have space of standing or plunging in the river, divers men seeing him, said: It is a strange ease, brother Drythelm, for so the man was called, that you can possibly suffer such bitter cold.
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