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 442
s acommon surname in Bir-mingham : Perkunas orPeroon, the Slav Pater or Jupiter, was always re- p^^_ 258.-British. From A Neio De.presented with a ham- scription of England and Wales mer. In Fig. 175 ante, (Anon, 1724). p. 332, the British Fire Father, or Hammersmith, waslabouring at what is… … 432 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [CHAP. the Bed Booh of Hergest there occurs a hne—WithMath the ancient, with Gofannon, from which one mightgather that Math and Gofannon were one. In any casethe word smith is apparently se mith, se meath, or Se Math,and the Smeaths Ridge at Avebury was probably namedafter the…
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