The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 117
ccompanied by his dog, is in search of the wild deer the other has no companion, but is depicted in the act of shootmg at a bird: and from the adornment of his girdle, appears to • Olaii Worm. Lit. Run. p. 129.p. 248. Barthol. p. 420. Pontoppiaan s Hist. Norway, Claudius, B. iv. 50 SrORTS AND… … 10. Saxon Bow and Arrow.—X. CtNTunY. This engraving- is made from a manuscript of the tenth < en-tury in the Cotton Library.^ The bow is curiously ornamentedh iving the head and tail of a serpent carved at the ends; andwas, probably, such a one as was used by the nobility. In allthese bows we…
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