Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... Tree of Jesse . In a thousand forms it illumi- nated the lives of saints and apostles , martyrs and prophets ; the ... trees to make them fruitful . The very oxen of the fields , he believed , knelt in the byres on Christmas night in ...
... Tree of Jesse . In a thousand forms it illumi- nated the lives of saints and apostles , martyrs and prophets ; the ... trees to make them fruitful . The very oxen of the fields , he believed , knelt in the byres on Christmas night in ...
Page 383
... trees and grey , colourless skies , and the nights of shivering in draughty hovels , were broken by the sweet wintry festival of Christ's birth , with its bright fires , lighted win- dows and good fare . It came just when it was most ...
... trees and grey , colourless skies , and the nights of shivering in draughty hovels , were broken by the sweet wintry festival of Christ's birth , with its bright fires , lighted win- dows and good fare . It came just when it was most ...
Page 397
... trees and blossom of their gardens . Their encircling walls were designed more for preventing robberies and controlling suspicious travellers at night than for war . Except on the Welsh and Scottish borders they were seldom the ...
... trees and blossom of their gardens . Their encircling walls were designed more for preventing robberies and controlling suspicious travellers at night than for war . Except on the Welsh and Scottish borders they were seldom the ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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