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 499
Some authorities connoted this word verray with Werra,a Sclavonic deity, and the connection is prohahly well 486 ABCHATO ENGLAND [chap. founded : the Couiish Furry dance was also termed theFlora dance. The name Proserpine is seemingly akin to Pure Serpent—the same Serpent, perhaps, whose form is… … Pig. 280.—The Church as a Dove with Six Wings. A Franco-German]\Iiniature of the XI. Cent. From Chrhtian Iconography (Didrou). holding serpents and the nude figare on the left of Fig. 279has l)een ingeniously, and, I think, rightly interpreted byBorlase as Truth, or Vera. It was doubtless some…
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