New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2Churton, 1847 |
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... Saxon ancestors this month had various names , and all of them much more appropriate than the one we have borrowed , and retained , from the Romans . It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pas- ture ; † Medemonȧth ...
... Saxon ancestors this month had various names , and all of them much more appropriate than the one we have borrowed , and retained , from the Romans . It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pas- ture ; † Medemonȧth ...
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... Saxon - bælfyr , a burning pile , -by the change of a single letter only , baal in the Islandic signifying a conflagration . It appears , too , among other ceremonies , that on these occasions a wheel , covered with lighted straw , was ...
... Saxon - bælfyr , a burning pile , -by the change of a single letter only , baal in the Islandic signifying a conflagration . It appears , too , among other ceremonies , that on these occasions a wheel , covered with lighted straw , was ...
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... Saxon . It does not , however seem very probable , and unless they were originally used as parts of the Midsummer pageant , I am at a loss to offer any reasonable conjecture for these Dagons of civic idolatry . * “ Alii immani ...
... Saxon . It does not , however seem very probable , and unless they were originally used as parts of the Midsummer pageant , I am at a loss to offer any reasonable conjecture for these Dagons of civic idolatry . * “ Alii immani ...
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... Saxon or Danish , the British rings being of iron , as the Roman were of gold or silver.t The only remaining feast of this month of any note in the calendar , is the Eve of St. Peter and St. Paul , i.e. the 28th , on which occasion many ...
... Saxon or Danish , the British rings being of iron , as the Roman were of gold or silver.t The only remaining feast of this month of any note in the calendar , is the Eve of St. Peter and St. Paul , i.e. the 28th , on which occasion many ...
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... we find repeated notice of it in the Anglo - Saxon records , not as an idle superstition , but in connection with the judgments of the law . vealed powers . It was not however a single means 52 NEW CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE .
... we find repeated notice of it in the Anglo - Saxon records , not as an idle superstition , but in connection with the judgments of the law . vealed powers . It was not however a single means 52 NEW CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE .
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