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ancient Angle Angli Anglo-Saxon annals Annus antiquity applied Beda beginning believe blood Britain British British Isles Britons bronze Cæsar called century certain chapter character chief civilization coast common conquest considerable considered continent Danes Danish district earlier earliest early east Elbe elements England English ethnological evidence existence extent fact foreign Frisian Gaelic Gaels Gaul German give hand Hence important inference Ireland Irish island Keltic Kelts Kent king known land language latter least less locality look means mentioned ments metal native nature notice numerous occupants occurs origin perhaps period Pict population position present probably Ptolemy question reasons records relations respect Roman Saxons Scandinavian Scotland separate statement Stone suggested supposed Tacitus taken term tion tongue tradition true Welsh writer
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Page 42 - ... followed him into the same destructive disaster; he himself escaped by means of a fragment of the ship, and received from the state the value of the cargo he had lost. The Romans nevertheless by frequent efforts discovered the passage, and as soon as Publius Crassus, passing over to them, perceived that the metals were dug out at a little depth, and that the men were peaceably disposed, he declared it to those who already wished to traffic in this sea for profit, although the passage was longer...
Page 233 - Jutarum natio nominatur, posita contra ipsam insulam Vectam. De Saxonibus, id est, ea regione quae nunc antiquorum Saxonum cognominatur, venere Orientales Saxones, Meridiani Saxones, Occidui Saxones. Porro de Anglis, hoc est, de illa patria quae Angulus dicitur et ab eo tempore usque hodie manere desertus inter provincias Jutarum et Saxonum perhibetur, Orientales Angli, Mediterranei Angli, Merci, tota Nordanhymbrorum progenies, id est, illarum gentium quae ad Boream Humbri fluminis inhabitant, caeterique...
Page 242 - In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the people. They consisted of immense whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.
Page 42 - One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, girt about the breast and walking with staves, thus resembling the Furies we see in tragic representations.
Page 42 - They subsist by their cattle, leading for the most part a wandering life. Of the metals they have tin and lead, which with skins they barter with the merchants for earthenware, salt, and brazen vessels.
Page 54 - ... extremity of the shaft, that when shaken it may terrify the enemy by its noise ; they use daggers also ; they are capable of enduring hunger, thirst, and hardships of every description ; for when plunged in the marshes they abide there many days with their heads only out of water ; and in the woods they subsist on bark and roots ; they prepare for all emergencies a certain kind of food, of which if they eat only so much as the size of a bean they neither hunger nor thirst. Such then is the island...
Page 41 - They who dwell near the promontory of Britain which is called Belerium (now the Land's end,) are singularly fond of strangers, and from their intercourse with foreign merchants, civilized in their habits.
Page 41 - ... habits. These people obtain the tin by skilfully working the soil which produces it: this being rocky, has earthy interstices, in which working the ore and then fusing, they reduce it to metal; and when they have formed it into cubical shapes, they convey it to a certain island lying off Britain, named Ictis; for at the low tides the intervening space being laid dry, they carry thither in waggons the tin in great abundance.
Page 76 - ... There is a collateral evidence on this subject which does not appear to have been sufficiently attended to. In the Durham MSS of Nennius, apparently written in the twelfth century, there is an interpolated passage, stating that the spot in question was in the Scottish or Gaelic language called Cenail. Innes and others have remarked the resemblance between this appellation and the present Kinneil; but no one appears to have noticed that Cenail accurately represents the pronunciation of the Gaelic...
Page 54 - Maeatse dwell close to the wall which divides the island into two parts ; the Caledonians beyond them. Each of these people inhabit mountains wild and waterless, and plains desert and marshy, having neither...