Archaeologia Cambrensis, Bindi 3W. Pickering, 1852 |
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Abbey aisles Alberbury ancient antiquary antiquity appears arch Archæologia Cambrensis Archæological architectural assignatis bards baron battle Brecon Britain British Bryneich building Caermarthen called CAMB Cambrian Caractacus Carew carnedd carneddau castle Cathedral century chancel chapel character choir church cist county Wexford Coxall Knoll Cunedda Cynan Cynan Garwyn David's district Domino Earl early east Edward Edward III English feet Fitz-Warine Fulk Gumfreston Hecatæus Henry heredibus Hodgeston Ireland Irish John Kidwelly KIDWELLY CASTLE king land latter Llandaff Llywarch Hen Lord Ludlow Mabon Madoc manor Merionethshire nave Norman original Oswestry parish Pembroke Pembrokeshire period poem portion possession predicto present probably quod remains remarkable Rhoscrowther Richard Roger Roman Rupe Saxon SERIES side stone Tacitus Taliesin Tenby terræ Thomæ Thomas tower town transept Urien Rheged Wales wall Welsh Wexford Whittington William Wynne
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Síða 217 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Síða 328 - In the county of Hereford," he says, " was an old custom at funerals to hire poor people who were to take upon them the sins of the party deceased. One of them (he was a long, lean, ugly, lamentable poor rascal) I remember lived in a cottage on Rosse highway.
Síða 60 - Thy tower, proud Bamborough, mark'd they there, King Ida's castle, huge and square, From its tall rock look grimly down, And on the swelling ocean frown ; Then from the coast they bore away, And reach'd the Holy Island's bay.
Síða 251 - They went forward until they came to the Ousel of Cilgwri. And Gurhyr adjured her, saying, " Tell me if thou knowest aught of Mabon, the son of Modron, who was taken when three nights old from between his mother and the wall ? " And the Ousel answered, " When I first came here, there was a smith's anvil in this place, and I was then a young bird ; and from that time no work has been done upon it, save the pecking of my beak every evening ; and now there is not so much as the size of a nut remaining...
Síða 252 - So Kai and Gwrhyr Gwalstawd leithoedd went upon the two shoulders of the salmon, and they proceeded until they came unto the wall of the prison, and they heard a great wailing and lamenting from the dungeon. Said Gwrhyr, "Who is it that laments in this house of stone?
Síða 252 - As much as I know I will tell thee. With every tide I go along the river upwards, until I come near to the walls of Gloucester, and there have I found such wrong as I never found elsewhere; and to the end that ye may give credence thereto, let one of you go thither upon each of my two shoulders.
Síða 251 - When first I came hither, there was a plain all around me^ without any trees save one oak sapling, which grew up to be an oak with an hundred branches.
Síða 91 - ... stone, should be so placed as to indicate the eastern cardinal point; to the north of which another stone should be placed, so as to face the eye of the rising sun at the longest summer's day ; and to the south of it, an additional one, pointing to the position of the rising sun at the shortest winter's day. These three are called station stones...
Síða 91 - ... on the summit of some conspicuous ground ; so as to enclose any requisite area of greensward ; the stones being so placed as to allow sufficient space for a man to stand between each two of them; except that the two stones of the circle which most directly confront the eastern sun, should be sufficiently apart to allow at least ample space for three men between them ; thus affording an easy ingress to the circle. This larger space is called the entrance or portal; in front of which, at the distance...
Síða 257 - ... were of golden purple. And above the robe he wore a sword three-edged and bright, with a golden hilt. And the belt of the sword was of yellow goldwork, having a clasp upon it of the eyelid of a black sea-horse, and a tongue of yellow gold to the clasp. Upon the head of the knight was a bright helmet of yellow laton, with sparkling stones of crystal in it, and at the crest of the helmet was the figure of a griffin, with a stone of many virtues in its head.