The Dolmens of Ireland: Their Distribution, Structural Characteristics, and Affinities in Other Countries; Together with the Folk-lore Attaching to Them; Supplemented by Considerations on the Anthropology, Ethnology, and Traditions of the Irish People. With Four Maps, and Eight Hundred Illustrations, Including Two Coloured Plates, Volum 3

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Chapman & Hall, ld., 1897

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Side 1047 - Yet sure they are very valiant and hardy, for the most part great endurers of cold, labour, hunger, and all hardiness, very active and strong of hand, very swift of foot, very vigilant and circumspect in their enterprises, very present in perils, very great scorners of death.
Side 1093 - ... white-collared shirt, embroidered with gold, upon him ; a girdle with golden buckles, and studded with precious stones, around him; two golden net-work sandals with golden buckles upon him ; two spears with golden sockets, and many red bronze rivets, in his hand; while he stood in. the full glow of beauty, without defect or blemish.
Side 1170 - Nathi, son of Fiachra, took [reigned over] Erin, and invaded to the Alp mountains. Formenus, king of Thrace, came on pilgrimage to the Alp mountains at that time. There was made by him a castle tower, and sixty feet its height, and eleven feet outwards from him to the light, and he was himself in the middle of the tower, and perceived not a ray of the light. Then came Nathi to the tower. Then the followers of Nathi demolished the tower. And Formenus perceived the wind [outer air] about him. Then...
Side 1048 - counted 24 castles on their extensive estate, many of which are still in existence, and they have a burial place appropriated to them in the Abbey of Moyne, where may be seen the gigantic bones of some of them, who have been remarkable for their great stature, one of them having exceeded seven feet in height.
Side 1047 - I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge...
Side 764 - Stukeley school, who from the middle of the last century to the middle of the present one, associated the name of the Druids with these and other megalithic remains, and caused their views to find such credence that the name
Side 833 - This is the time at which the illimitable seaburst arose and spread throughout the regions of the present world. Because there were at that season Erin's three great floods, namely Clidna's flood and Ladru's and Baile's; but not in the same hour did they arise: Ladru's flood was the middle one. The flood pressed on and divided throughout the Land of Erin till it caught the boat and the damsel asleep on the beach.
Side 952 - Of this Engis skull Virchow writes: " It is so absolutely dolichocephalic that if we were justified in constituting our ethnic groups solely with reference to the shape of the skull, the Engis skull would without hesitation be classed as belonging to the primitive Teutonic race, and we should arrive at the conclusion that a Germanic population dwelt on the banks of the Meuse prior to the earliest irruption of a Mongolic race.
Side 813 - Patrick then brought to life the dead man who was biding in the grave, and asked tidings of him, namely, when and how [he got there], and of what race and of what name he was. He answered Patrick, saying, ' I am Cass, son of Glass, and I was swineherd to Lugar, King of Iruata \regis Norwegi<z, Col.
Side 1097 - Chuailgnt in full ; and they said that they knew of it but fragments only. Senchan then spoke to his pupils to know which of them would go into the countries of Lefha to learn the Tdin which the Sai had taken ' eastwards

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