Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1856 |
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Abbey Abererch afsd aisle ancient Anglesey antiquaries antiquities appears ARCH Archæologia Cambrensis Archæological Ariconium Bishop Brecknockshire Breton British bronze building Burgesses their heirs Caer Caermarthenshire Caernarvonshire Caersws called CAMB Cambrian Cambrian Archæological Association Carn Castle cathedral celts century chancel character Chester church Committee cromlech cross David's district ditch early east Edward English feet Goch gold Henry hill inches inscribed inscription Kenchester Kidwelly King letters Llanaber Llanbrynmair Llandaff Llandeilo Llanidloes Lord Lordship Mawr Meeting miles Montgomeryshire monuments mountain nave North Wales notice Offa's Dyke Ogham original palstave parish pedigree Pembrokeshire portion Powis present Prince probably quarter remains remarkable Rhodri Mawr ridge river Roman road Roman station roof Ruthin Saxon Severn Shrewsbury side Sir Richard south-west stone style THIRD SERIES Tidenham tower traces tumulus wall Wat's Dyke Welsh Welshpool William window Wynne
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253 ページ - Booths). A German named Tyrker, who accompanied Leif on this voyage, was the man who found the wild vines, which he recognized from having seen them in his own land, and Leif gave the country its name from this circumstance.
253 ページ - American lands, after visited and named by his countrymen. In order to examine these countries more narrowly, Leif the Fortunate, son of Erik the Red, undertook a voyage of discovery thither in the year 1000. He landed on the shores described by Blame, detailed the character of these lands more exactly, and gave them names according to their appearance.
254 ページ - Icelandic voyage-chroniclers respecting the climate, the soil, and the productions of this new country are very characteristic. Nay, we have even a statement of this kind as old as the eleventh century from a writer not a Northman, Adam of Bremen; he states on the authority of Svein Estridson, the King of Denmark, a nephew of Canute the Great, that the country got its name from the vine growing wild there.
168 ページ - Special Meeting the President, or in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents, shall take the Chair, and in their absence the Committee shall appoint a Chairman.
271 ページ - It is a pure specimen of the English language at a period when it had sustained few of the corruptions which have disfigured it since we have had writers of "Grammars...
115 ページ - And forasmuch as there be many and divers Lordships Marchers within the said country or dominion of Wales, lying between the shires of England and the shires of the said country or dominion of Wales, and being no parcel of any other shires where the laws and due correction is used and had...
254 ページ - Accompanied by his wife, and by a crew of 160 men, on board three vessels, he repaired in the spring of 1007 to Vineland, where he remained for three years, and had many communications with the aborigines.
179 ページ - He was the greatest of our knaves in the period in which he lived; the most dreaded oppressor in his neighbourhood, and a true sycophant; for a common address of his letters to his patron was, O Lord, in thee do I put my trust !
254 ページ - The number of days' sail between the several newly-found lands, the striking description of the coasts, especially the white sand-banks of...
253 ページ - THORWALD, repaired thither, and in 1003 caused an expedition to be undertaken to the south, along the shore, but he was killed in the summer of 1004 on a voyage northwards, in a skirmish with the natives. The most distinguished however of all the first American discoverers is THOEFIN KARLSEFNE, an Icelander, whose genealogy...