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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 572

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left side ; before and behind they laid them to the ground; all thejslew that they came nigh; of the kings men there fell four hundred andfive, woe was the king alive ! —Layamon, Brut. x.j HAPPY ENGLAND 555 magician or sorcerer, which is precisely the characterassigned by popular opinion to the… … Pig. 335.—Stoueheuge. From 77ic Celtic Druids (Higgens, G.). As this monument was without doubt a national centre itis probable that as I have elsewhere suggested Stonehengemeant also the Stone Hinge: the word cardinal meansradically hinge; the original Roman cardinals whose roundred hats probably…

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