Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments (1922)
Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 235
hat long before the nineteenth centurythese objects were described by the Swedish antiquarian 149 Rudbeck, from whose Atlantica (1695) we reproducethe sketch shown in Fig. 127. The names given to these devices in the various local-ities in which they occur are of some interest. Aroundthe Finnish… … Fig. 127.—Scandinavian Stone Labyrinth. (O. Rudbeck, 1695.) Jericho. In the neighbourhood of Viborg they areknown as Jatinkatu (Giants Street), Kivitarha (Stone-fence), or Lissabon. In Lappland a common term is Babylon\ in Iceland,where the mazes are sometimes formed of earth, the nameapplied is…
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