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 401
parents of three gods entitledBrian, luchar, and Uar, and it looks as though these threewere equivalent to the Persian trinity of Good Thought,Good Deed, and (4ood Word. The term word is derived 389 390 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [chap by Skeat from a root wer, meaning to speak, whence Uarwas seemingly iverde… … Figs. 224 to 231.—British. From Evans. eu cardia, i.e., soft, gentle, pleasing, and propitious heart,otherwise Kind Action or Good Deed. These three mythic sons constitute the gods of IrishLiterature and Art, and are said to have had in commonan only son entitled Ecne,^ whose name, according to…
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