Origins of English HistoryB. Quaritch, 1882 - 458 sider |
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Side ix
... Welsh bards on the first settlement - The ancient Fauna of the island - Commencement of authentic history — The Hyperborean legends — The travels of Pytheas in Britain - Fragments of his writings - Marseilles in the age of Alexander the ...
... Welsh bards on the first settlement - The ancient Fauna of the island - Commencement of authentic history — The Hyperborean legends — The travels of Pytheas in Britain - Fragments of his writings - Marseilles in the age of Alexander the ...
Side x
... Welsh of Strathclyde , Pictish , Cornish , Gaulish , Celtic of Thrace and Galatia , Celtiberian -Originals from which the groups are derived — Lingua Britannica — Affinities of Old Welsh -Whether more related to the Irish or the Gaulish ...
... Welsh of Strathclyde , Pictish , Cornish , Gaulish , Celtic of Thrace and Galatia , Celtiberian -Originals from which the groups are derived — Lingua Britannica — Affinities of Old Welsh -Whether more related to the Irish or the Gaulish ...
Side xii
... Welsh Triads - Their date and authority - Legend of High the Mighty - Mythological poems of the bards - Taliesin - Nature of the poems written under his name - Religion of the Gauls - Its nature - The greater gods - Dis Pater - The mode ...
... Welsh Triads - Their date and authority - Legend of High the Mighty - Mythological poems of the bards - Taliesin - Nature of the poems written under his name - Religion of the Gauls - Its nature - The greater gods - Dis Pater - The mode ...
Side xiii
... Welsh poems - Nennius- Romances of Arthur - The history of Gildas - Its dramatic nature - Its imitation of the Vulgate The story of Vortigern - His war with the mercenaries -The victory of Ambrosius - The Mons Badonicus - English ...
... Welsh poems - Nennius- Romances of Arthur - The history of Gildas - Its dramatic nature - Its imitation of the Vulgate The story of Vortigern - His war with the mercenaries -The victory of Ambrosius - The Mons Badonicus - English ...
Side 1
... Welsh bards on the first settlement . The ancient Fauna of the island . — Commencement of authentic history . -The Hyperborean legends . - The travels of Pytheas in Britain - Fragments of his writings . - Marseilles in the age of ...
... Welsh bards on the first settlement . The ancient Fauna of the island . — Commencement of authentic history . -The Hyperborean legends . - The travels of Pytheas in Britain - Fragments of his writings . - Marseilles in the age of ...
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afterwards amber ancient Antiqu appears Archæol atque Avienus barrows Bede Borough-English Brit Britain Britannia British Britons bronze Cæsar called Cambr Cassiterides Celtic Celts century A.D. chieftains Chronicle Cimbri circa coast Compare conquest Cornwall custom descended described districts Druids Eccl eldest English Ermin Street forest Gaul Gaulish German gods Greek Grimm Hist ibid inhabitants inscriptions Ireland Irish island Isle Julius Cæsar Kemble Kent kind King kingdom land legend Mabinogion Mythol nations Nennius northern Olaus Magnus origin passage Picts Pliny Posidonius province Pytheas quæ quam quod race region Revue Celtique Roman round Saxons Scotland seems Septent shore Solinus stone story Strabo sunt Tacitus temple Thule traced travellers tribes voyage Wales wall Welsh West wild worship youngest γὰρ δὲ διὰ ἐν καὶ κατὰ μὲν περὶ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Side 82 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Side 128 - To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, In caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Among the bushes they brayed ; Under the nettles they were gathered together.
Side 12 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Side 295 - This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on.' After that, they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals : ' This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, 0 eagle !' When the ceremony is over, they dine on the caudle...
Side 182 - ... of maple, full of beer (which he was to drink up), and sixpence in money : in consideration whereof he took upon him, ipso facto, all the sins of the defunct, and freed him or her from walking after they were dead.
Side 294 - On that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them. Each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and, flinging it over his shoulder, says, " This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses : this to thee, preserve thou my sheep ;
Side 424 - Uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, et maxime fratres cum fratribus parentesque cum liberis ; sed, si qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.
Side 294 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my...
Side 425 - Ac fuit antea tempus, cum Germanos Galli virtute superarent, ultro bella inferrent, propter hominum multitudinem agrique inopiam trans Rhenum colonias mitterent.
Side 424 - Solem et Vulcanum et Lunam, reliquos ne fama quidem acceperunt. Vita omnis in venationibus atque in studiis rei militaris consistit: ab parvulis labori ac duritiae student.