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 730
eate a noisesomewhat resembling the loud humming of bees whenswarming from a hive . I have little doubt that all hills, hryna, or barrows were regarded not only as bruen, or 710 CHAP. XIII.] ENGLISH EDENS 7ll breasts, but as ethereal beehives, and the superstitionsstill associated with bees are… … Fig. 444.—Birs Nimroud. so far as to assert that every British -dun or -ton was afairy dun or doitn further investigation will probably es-tablish an unsuspected multitude of Dunhills or Edens.We have seen that in Ireland fern meant anciently any-thing good, and also in all probability fer en the…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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