| "The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Anglo—Saxon Sense of the Past | ' , see also Noorudin, Hadhrat al-Hajj Hafiz Hakim Maulana |
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| It is in doubt of that which is said that they slept three hundred and sixty-two years, for they were raised the year of our Lord four hundred and seventy-eight, and Decius reigned but one year and three months, and that was in the year of our Lord two hundred and seventy, and so they slept but two hundred and eight years |