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...eparted for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic New Years' Eve - the "Samhain". On that night, the spirit... .... The 100-years war between Britain and France lasted 117 years (1337-1453). The Britons were expelled from Calais only in 1558. This is by far t...

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...nian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibling tongues emerged. First... ...outhern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, th... ... Three centuries after the Roman Legions had left for good, many in the Celtic population still called themselves Romani and considered the legion... ...h.) Not imposed by force but rather absorbed over time by the conquered Britons, the invaders‘ tongue became the dominant language of Britain. Lin... ...at English ―completely supplanted Latin (save in the Church) and drove the Celtic tongue forever to the north and west. The evolution of English ...

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...nian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibling tongues emerged. First... ...outhern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, th... .... Three centuries after the Roman Legions had left for good, many in the Celtic population still called themselves Romani and considered the legion... ...ish.) Not imposed by force but rather absorbed over time by the conquered Britons, the invaders‘ tongue became the dominant language of Britain. Lin... ...at English ―completely supplanted Latin (save in the Church) and drove the Celtic tongue forever to the north and west. The evolution of English do...

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...man de Brut . He himself called it the Geste des Bretons (“History of the Britons”), but it is best known under the title that appears in the manuscr... ...hese he adds to Geoffrey’s narrative two that bear unmistakable signs of a Celtic origin, and that were destined to become important elements in later... ...r of the Saxon invaders:— “Thus said Arthur, noblest of kings: ‘See ye, my Britons, here beside us, our full foes,—Christ destroy them!—Colgrim the st... ... long lived, abounding in “virtues most good.” Layamon, too, gives a truly Celtic version of Arthur’s disap pearance from earth. Two fairy maidens be... ...a to Argante, the queen of Avalon, who will make him whole again. “And the Britons ever expect when Arthur shall return.” This story, and also Layamon... ...e, which is vastly more complete than Wace’s, bear unmistakable marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh border, na... ... most cases conveys the idea of bril liant whiteness, a characteristic of Celtic fairy objects. His ship, for example, is named White Form, his shiel... ...hurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut (Caletvwlch, Caliburn, Excalibur) is a Pan Celtic marvellous object, and is one of Arthur’s most famous possessions. T... ... this story was undoubtedly one of those “many fables” which Wace says the Britons told about the Round Table, but which he does not incorporate into ...

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... deep sequestered dell Had sought a low and lonely cell. By many a bard in Celtic tongue Has Coir-nan-Uriskin been sung A softer name the Saxons gave,... ...ccording to Graham, it is “the scene of the death of a wild boar famous in Celtic tradition.” 114. Unbated. Cf. Shakespeare, M. of V . ii. 6. 11: “Whe... ...f. Wb. 504. Here for retreat, etc. Scott has the following note here: “The Celtic chieftains, whose lives were continually exposed to peril, had usual... ...821 reads “had harbored.” 319. Beltane. The first of May, when there was a Celtic festi- val in honor of the sun. Beltane = Beal-tein, or the fire of ... ...song! Oh! courteous champion of Montrose! Oh! stately warrior of the Celtic Isles! Thou shalt buckle thy harness on no more!’ “The coronach h... ...s to your sires. The target and claymore were the weap- ons of the Ancient Britons. Taylor quotes Tacitus, Agricola: “ingentibus gladiis et brevibus c...

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...ersians and whom the Romans thumped, than the modern English represent the Britons, or the modern Lowland Scotch represent the Scoti, of the centuries... ...blood was different; and by a wider difference, perhaps, than that between Celtic and T eutonic. The garru- lous Athenian despised the hesitating (but... ...do. In his own ‘Art of Criticism,’ about verse 715, he describes ‘us brave Britons’ as incorrigibly rebellious in that particular. We have no correctn...

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... _150 In her omnipotence, and shake From the Celtic Anarch’s hold All the keys of dungeons cold, Where a hundred cities ... ...f Liberty, _5 Whom Britons own to be Immortal Queen. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. See, she comes throned on ... ...rds, _170 And frowns and fears from thee, Would not more swiftly flee Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds.— Whatever, Spirit, from thy star...

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...k to the health and prosperity of Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich; upon which the Celtic ambassador, to requite his politeness, turned down a mighty bumper o... ...tremendous war-tune; and the echoing of the vaulted roof, and clang of the Celtic tongue, produced such a Babel of noises, that Waverley dreaded his e... ...the hint, and began to chant, with low and rapid utterance, a profusion of Celtic verses, which were received by the audience with all the applause of... ... forefathers, I must tell you that Captain Waverley is a worshipper of the Celtic muse, not the less so perhaps that he does not understand a word of ... ...s equally amused and surprised with the account which the lady gave him of Celtic poetry. ‘The recitation,’ she said, ‘of poems, recording the feats o... ...d all. I have, for the first time in a long and active military life, seen Britons disgrace themselves by a panic flight, and that before a foe withou...

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... years as justly to regard them as their inheritance, were Gaul. There the Celtic race had had their abode ever since history has spoken clearly, and ... ...e in the long run. Their worship was conducted by Druids, like that of the Britons, and their dress was of checked material, formed into a loose coat ... ...y, there too would be the white cliffs of Dover, and the struggle with the Britons on the beach. Models in wood and ivory showed the fortifications of...

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...ates they had travelled so far to visit and to study: These Britons wear The driven and perplexed look of men Begotten ... ...ympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a Yorkshire stock; she had the bravery, human...

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...rtook, while Marius led the army, to spy out the enemy’s camp. Procuring a Celtic dress, and acquainting himself with the ordinary expressions of thei... ...erson, he singled out and bent all his forces against Brutus, and when the Celtic horsemen from the enemy’s side rode out to meet him, Pompey himself ... ...distant from Rome, entangled in the affairs of the Belgians, Suevians, and Britons, in truth he was working craftily by secret practices in the midst ... ...mmencement, he concluded by telling the senate, it was not the sons of the Britons or the Gauls they need fear, but Caesar himself, if they were wise....

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...der strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood. The face was large and roughly hewn, and when in repose had n... ... is turned eighty-three. It is not to be believed that any but the dullest Britons can be good subjects under that hard condition. Apart from this for...

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...r the sum she had received, stuck infamy upon the whole list of them. “The Celtic nature,” murmured Cornelia. And the ladies maintained that their ser... ...zing of their peculiar slang, brought a roar of applause from the crowd of Britons. “Only a street row,” said Mr. Pole, to calm Emilia. “Will he be hu...

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...ring down all before me. I heard the cry of “Seize the madman!” echoed, in Celtic sounds, from the City Guard, with “Ceaze ta matman!”—but pur- suit a... ...u Cornish chough, has this good wind blown you north?— Ah, my brave Cambro-Britons, when was Wales last in the race of honour?’ Such and such-like com...

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...- ance, of that native Lancashire population, as yet not much alloyed with Celtic adulteration. My feelings towards them are the same as were eloquent... ...t was too boisterous or too perilous for the gentle propensities of modern Britons; and that, by the best accounts, few men of rank or fashion were no...

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...quy with newspaper reporters;—an absolutely fair, square, upright fight of Britons was to be chronicled. Cap- tain Abrane, a tower in the crowd, regis... ...ontact with her spir- ited him out of his mooniness. He had the Cymric and Celtic respect of character; which puts aside the person’s environments to ... ...eir number by hav- ing to learn from blows, Carin.’ ‘He said, “Let me lead Britons!”’ ‘When the canteen’s fifty leagues to the rear, yes!’ ‘Y es, it i...