A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy: Antiquities of gold. 1862

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Seite 270 - Wi' their gowd kames in their hair." An ancient Irish long rack C. is in the museum of the royal Irish academy. The sides are hog-backed, and between them are set the pectinated portions, varying in breadth from half an inch to an inch and a quarter, according to the size of the bone out of which they were cut. The whole is fastened together with brass pins riveted. By this contrivance, any damaged portion could easily be replaced.
Seite 519 - ... and ornamented with gold, at his side; he had no other accoutrements of a hero besides these; he had golden hair on his head, and had a fair, ruddy countenance.
Seite 379 - The Side Edge, or narrow profile view of the celt, presents great diversity, chiefly dependent on the full-faced shape and general character of the individual specimen. Several of these figured in the preceding part of this section afford examples of the side outline, see especially all those represented on page 373. The following cuts, together with those already Fig. 266. Fig. 267. Fig. 268. Fig. 269. Fig. 270. Fig. 271. Fig. 272. referred to, comprise nearly all the examples of side outline, and...
Seite 638 - ... when you have those singularly beautiful curves — more beautiful, perhaps, in the parts that are not seen than in those that meet the eye— whose beauty, revealed in shadow more than in form — you have a peculiar characteristic — a form of beauty which belongs to no nation but our own, and to no portion of our nation but the Keltic portion.
Seite 309 - NS, p. 186. banian ; and the abbas of the Turk and most oriental people, including the Hebrews. In the twelfth century, Giraldus Cambrensis thus briefly describes the costume of the Irish : they " wear thin, woollen clothes, mostly black, because the sheep of Ireland are in general of that colour; the dress itself is of a barbarous fashion ; they wear cappuces, which spread over their shoulders, and reach down to the elbow. These upper coverings are made of fabrics of different textures, with others...
Seite 315 - The clothing in use is a loose mantle, made fast with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had, with a thorn. Naked in other respects, they loiter away whole days by the fireside. The rich wear a garment, not, indeed, displayed and flowing, like the Parthians, or the people of Sarmatia, but drawn so tight, that the form of the limbs is palpably expressed. The skins of wild animals are also much in use. Near...
Seite 297 - Thua was the distinction made between them : one colour in the clothes of slaves ; two in the clothes of soldiers ; three in the clothes of goodly heroes, or young lords of territories; six in the clothes of ollavs, (professors); seven in the clothes of kings or queens.
Seite 319 - ... of a chief king, in which were fifty carbuncle gems of the beautiful rare stones of eastern India, artistically set with beautiful, bright silver, and with well-coloured gold, and with other precious stones. He placed his blue, sharp-edged, rich-hilted sword at his convenience, and his strong, triumphant, wonderful, firm, embossed shield, of beautiful devices, upon the convex slope of his back. He grasped his two thick-headed, wide-socketed, battle spears, with their rings of gold upon their...
Seite 319 - His noble garment was first brought to him, namely, a strong, well-formed, closeridged, defensively-furrowed, terrific, neat-bordered, new-made, and scarletred cassock of fidelity; he expertly put on that gold-bordered garment which covered him as far as from the lower part of his soft, fine, red-white neck, to the upper part of his expert, snow-white, round-knotted knee. Over that mantle he put on a full-strong, white-topped, wide-round, goldbordered, straight, and parti-coloured coat of mail, well-fitting,...
Seite 320 - ... was put on him over his golden mail ; he himself laid on his head a strong-cased, spherical-towering, polishedshining, branch-engraved, long-enduring helmet; he took his. edged, smooth-bladed, letter-graved, destructive, sharp-pointed, fight-taming, sheathed, gold-guarded, and girded sword, which he tied fast in haste to his side...

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