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The History of Wales: Descriptive of the Government, Wars, Manners, Religion, Laws, Druids, Bards, Pedigrees and Language of the Ancient Britons and Modern Welsh (Classic Reprint)
The History of Wales Descriptive of the Government Wars Manners Religion Laws Druids Bards Pedigrees and Language of the Ancient Britons and Modern Welsh - Classic Reprint Author:John Jones The HISTORY OF WALES. CHAF. I. The Histbry of the Ancient B ritons from remote Times to the final lletirzment of the Jlomans. B HIT A IN" was, in remote times, attached to Gaul by the Isthmus of Dwryfran. A convulsion of nature, attended with an irruption of the Atlantic ocean into the lake Llychlyn, separated Britain from the continent of the C... more »elta>; for the homogenous strata on the British and Gallic coasts, and the more distant positions of Norway and Scotland at present, than in anterior times, are positive proofs of this catastrophe; and the term Afanc, whereby the waters of the Channel are personified, as a moving inroad, has been formed from a reference to this awful event of a continental dissociation. The national name, which the inhabitants of this Island assumed, in remote ages, was Brydon*, the fair tribe; and hence their territory was called Brydain and Prydain; for the names of countries, in ancient times, On the more ancient Roman monuments Britain is written
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CONTENTS; CHAP I; THE History of the Ancient Britons from remote Times,; to the final Retirement of the Romans ? ? ? ? 1; CHAP II; The History of the Ancient Britons, or Welsh, from the final Retirement of the Romans to the death of Llewelyn ab Iorwerth *? ? ? ? * ?» 30; CHAP III; The History of the Welsh from the Death of Llewelyn ab; Iorwerth to the present Time * ? 04; CHAP IV; History of Christianity among the Ancient Britons, or; Welsh ?? ? ? ?>? 123; CHAP V; Of the Laws of the Welsh «* * 145; CHAP VI; Of the Druids ?? ? 185; CHAP VII; Of the Bards 21 fi; CHAP VIII; Of the Awendi «? ? ? ? * ?? 263; CHAP IX; The Pedigree of the Welsh «? ? ? - ? 266; CHAP X; Of the Language of Ancient Britons and Modern Welsh 288; CHAP XI; British Antiquities ?? ?? 304
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