This Endris Night

	This Endris Night Performed by the U.S. Army Band Chorus.
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"This Endris Night" (also "Thys Endris Night", "Thys Ender Night" or "The Virgin and Child"^[1]) is a 15th-century English Christmas carol.^[2] It has also appeared under various other spellings.^[1] Two versions from the 15th-century survive, one republished in Thomas Wright, Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (London: The Percy Society, 1847), and the other in the possession of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, Scotland,^[3] a legal deposit belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, a role which was assumed by the National Library of Scotland from 1925 onwards. All non-legal collections where gifted to the National Library.

It has been praised for the unusual delicacy and lyrical flourish for a poem of the period.^[3] The opening lyrics, in the Wright edition, are:^[4]

Thys endris nyȝth

I saw a syȝth,

A stare as bryȝt as day;

And ever among

A mayden song

Lullay, by by, lullay.

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hymns and Carols of Christmas. "This Endris Night". Retrieved 2011-03-08. 
2. ↑ Margaret Louise Kuhl (1976). "On Performing Wolf: Problems Inherent in the "Geistliche Lieder" from the Spanisches Liederbuch". University of British Columbia, Department of Music. Retrieved 2011-03-08. 
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hymns and Carols of Christmas. "Thys endrys nygth - Thomas Wright". Retrieved 2011-03-08. 
4. ↑ Scan of original from archive.org