Strange Survival
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共 18 段- Count Floris III. of Holland, who married Ada, daughter of H
- It is curious and significant that great works of art and ar
- They pass a gallows, round which a ghostly crew are hovering
- It is noticeable in Cornwall and on Dartmoor that the cluste
- The Greeks and Romans had nothing of the sort. Their beds we
- When King Harold Fairhair converted Norway into a single mon
- There was a stage of civilisation before the tinder-box came
- The great hall of audience of the Byzantine emperors was sur
- “In the midst of the gurte (hut) burnt a fire, round which w
- One may say boldly that Europe was half Pagan in the Middle
- To return to the passage quoted from the “Romans de Brut,” w
- The melody was arranged for Queen Elizabeth, and is in her V
- A more remarkable collection is that in the Icelandic _Herve
- In France and Germany the wheel was used as the instrument o
- In the same dolmen Dr. Prunières found a second skull that h
- All cup-hollows cannot indeed be explained as drink vessels
- ‘A work which will certainly be appealed to for many years a
- End of Project Gutenberg's Strange Survivals, by Sabine Bari