Origins of English HistoryB. Quaritch, 1882 - 458 ページ |
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afterwards amber ancient Antiqu appears Archæol 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 forest Gaul Gaulish German gods Greek Grimm Hist ibid inhabitants inscriptions Ireland Irish island Isle Julius Cæsar Kemble Kent kind King 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 Watling Street Welsh West western wild worship youngest γὰρ δὲ διὰ ἐν καὶ κατὰ μὲν περὶ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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72 ページ - 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.
2 ページ - 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.
285 ページ - 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...
414 ページ - 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.
284 ページ - 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 ;
204 ページ - A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work.
284 ページ - 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...
147 ページ - Every one who is black-haired, who is a tattler, guileful, tale-telling, noisy, contemptible, every wretched, mean, strolling, unsteady, harsh, and inhospitable person, every slave, every mean thief, every churl, every one who loves not to listen to music and entertainment, the disturbers of every council and every assembly, and the promoters of discord among people, these are of the descendants of the Firbolg, of the Gailiuns, of Liogairne, and of the Fir Domhnann in Erin.
127 ページ - ... and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives apiece; and this is the way in which they live. Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the platforms, and each has also a trap-door giving access to the lake beneath...
384 ページ - ... carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted.4 BURFORD, Co.