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 282
y have formed their swords into a figure, lay themupon the ground, and dance round them. 1 have not been fortunate enough to meet with any delineationthat accords with the foregoing descriptions of the sword-dance;but in a Latin manuscript of Prudentius with Saxon notes,written in the ninth… … 60. Sword-Dance The reader may fijd a more particular account, of the varioug mofjoiis and figu.esformed by the dancers, from Olaiis Magnus, in Mr. Brands rxotes upon tlie 14thchapter of Bournes V^ulgar Antiquiies, p. 175- Cleopatra. C. viii. 216 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. This drawing…
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