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 576
stion that the land of the Angels derived its Teutonic Mythology, Rydberg, p. 360. X.] HAPPY ENGLAND 559 title from the angelic superstitions of the inhabitants, may beconnoted with seemingly a parallel case in Sweden, i.e., theprovince of Elf land. According to Walter Scott this dis-trict had… … Fig. 337.—From Essays o)i Archmologkal Stibjects (Wright, T.). in a tale as full of impossible absurdities as ever was toldround a nursery fire. Fifteen of these hapless littlevisionaries were led to death, and thirty-six were lashedweekly at the church doors for a whole year: an unpro-fitable…
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