The history of Ireland, Volum 4Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845 - 313 sider |
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... fire is known , unquestionably , to have formed a part of the religion of the country , the notion that these towers were originally fire - temples , appears the most probable of any that have yet been suggested . To this it is objected ...
... fire is known , unquestionably , to have formed a part of the religion of the country , the notion that these towers were originally fire - temples , appears the most probable of any that have yet been suggested . To this it is objected ...
Side 161
... fire and miraculous oak at Kildare . * To what extent Christianity had spread , in Ireland , before the mission of ... fire - worshippers in a female form . The fire of St. Bridget was originally in the keeping of nine virgins ; but in ...
... fire and miraculous oak at Kildare . * To what extent Christianity had spread , in Ireland , before the mission of ... fire - worshippers in a female form . The fire of St. Bridget was originally in the keeping of nine virgins ; but in ...
Side 169
... fire . * It happened that , on the same evening , the monarch Leogaire and the assembled princes were , according to custom , celebrating the pagan festival of La Bealtinne ; † . and as it was a law that no fires should be lighted on ...
... fire . * It happened that , on the same evening , the monarch Leogaire and the assembled princes were , according to custom , celebrating the pagan festival of La Bealtinne ; † . and as it was a law that no fires should be lighted on ...
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