Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1928

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Page 182 - ... wives, and they at the same time desired to possess them, and each took a wife of the mothers of their companions, and they governed the country and peopled it. And these five divided it amongst them and because of this partition are the five divisions of Ireland still so termed. And they examined the land where the battles had taken place, and they found gold and silver, until they became wealthy.
Page 96 - I suggest that the other method, a labour force recruited by the State, paid by the State, and continuously employed over a period of years, is...
Page 348 - We must turn to a remarkable series of tales which are associated with the name of the Irish Finn, and which not only bear a close resemblance to the Lugh-Lleu legend, but, if not originally identical with it, have been so mixed with it as almost to lose all claim to an independent...
Page 97 - I have been disposed to hold, the free choice of a conquering race, but a boundary defined by treaty or by agreement between the men of the hills and the men of the lowlands.
Page 405 - Association the invitation of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society to visit the island in 1929.
Page 226 - ... we are justified in the hope that man will be able in due time not only to write his own history but to explain how and why events took the course they did.
Page 118 - the father of all such as handle the harp and organ," as his brother Jabal is mentioned as ' the father of such as dwell in tents.
Page 197 - In the last decade of the sixteenth century and in the early part of the seventeenth century there lived in England two brothers, prominent lawyers, who were natives of Anglesey, Wales.
Page 252 - Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, E. Hedley, Hon. Librarian, Black Gate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. National Museum of Antiquities, Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, The Museum, Taunton Stockholm, The Library of the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Box 5405, Sl 14 84, Sweden.
Page 84 - the early roads and tracks in Wales are mostly hill-ways', and having found that gaps in the Dyke were rather infrequent on the plateau surfaces, had adopted the opinion that 'the Dyke was intended to present a barrier almost complete, legitimate traffic between the two peoples concerned being limited to defined routes few in number'.

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