Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 111
h vocables hrethyn, cloth and its con-geners, in which case the Britons may have styled them-selves cloth-clad, in contradistinction to the skin-wearingneolithic nation that preceded them . \Vc know from Homer that the Trojans had a prettytaste in tweeds, and that their waistcoats in particularwere… … Fig. 14.—From TJie Cities andCemeteries of Etriiria (Dennis, G.). III.] A TALE OF TEOY 101 Time does not alter the radical characteristics of anyrace, and the outstanding qualities of the Britons—thetraditional remnant of Droia, are still very much to-day what they were in the time of Diodorus the…
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