| Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - 1863 - 548 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, says, " Brigit, take charge of your own fire ; for this night belongs...that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has been used. CHAPTEE XXXVI. OF THE HEDGE BOUND THE HBE, WHICH NO MALE CAN EKTEK.... | |
| E. Owens Blackburne - 1877 - 800 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, says : — ' Brigit, take charge of your own fire, for this night belongs...that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has been used. " This fire is surrounded by a hedge made of stakes and brushwood,... | |
| Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1884 - 606 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, says, ' Brigit, take charge of your own fire, for this night belongs...that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has been used." This sacred fire was kept burning continually for centuries, and was... | |
| Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 768 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, says, ' Brigit, take charge of your own fire, for this night belongs...that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has been used." This sacred fire was kept burning continually for centuries, and was... | |
| Alexander Macbain - 1885 - 148 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, says, ' Brigit, take charge of your own fire, for this night belongs...that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has been used." This sacred fire was kept burning continually for centuries, and was... | |
| 1886 - 610 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, says, " Bridget, take charge of your own fire, for this night belongs to you." In the morning it is found that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1896 - 1358 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, having heaped wood upon the fire, said : ' Bridget, take charge of your own fire, for this night belongs to you.' The nuns then left the fire, and in the morning it was found alight as usual. The fire was surrounded... | |
| Pausanias - 1898 - 678 sider
...evening before the twentieth night, the last nun, after heaping wood on the fire, used to say, " Bridget, take charge of your own fire ; for this night belongs to you." She then left the fire, and in the morning it was still burning and the usual quantity of fuel had been used.... | |
| James George Frazer - 1905 - 332 sider
...; and on the twentieth evening the last nun, having heaped wood on the fire, used to say, " Brigit, take charge of your own fire ; for this night belongs to you." She then went away, and next morning they always found the fire still burning and the usual quantity of fuel... | |
| Robert Craig Maclagan - 1909 - 252 sider
...one night, but on the twentieth handed it over for that night to Bridget herself to take charge of. " In the morning it is found that the fire has not gone out, and that the usual quantity of fuel has been used." The nuns were forbidden to use their breath to increase the flame... | |
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