 ... carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted.4 BURFORD, Co.  Origins of English History - Seite 394von Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 458 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Isaac Elton - 1890 - 506 Seiten
...dominion of Mercia by the victory of Cuthred over Ethelbald at Burford in the year 752. Dr. Plot gave the following account of a local custom by which this...of Freyr or Balder. 1 Will. Malmesb. Gesta, i. 17. Lappenberg, Hist. Engl. ic 7. The Kentish king was defeated by the West-Saxons in the first year of... | |
 | Elford Higgens - 1893 - 98 Seiten
...in his " History of Oxfordshire," mentions a custom (yet within memory) at Burford, in that county, of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down...town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a giant.' — Brand, p. 176. 82. ' In King's " Vale... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1900 - 582 Seiten
...insupportable exactions the former king not being able to endure, he came into the field against Ethelbald, met and overthrew him there, winning his banner, whereon...of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted. — Plott, Natural History of Oxfordshire, 1705, p. 356. WORCESTERSHIRE. A very curious practice is... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 Seiten
...having swines snowies : and sometimes were there seene foure hundred flying togither in a companie." carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve ; to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a GIANT. It is curious to find Plott attributing the... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 Seiten
...from whi tliey coru'Uuled, and theiv conjectures wore ricjh% a course of loud winds a* carrying it tip and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve ; to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a GIANT. It is curious to find Plott attributing the... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 360 Seiten
...taken with the dress. Burf ord. — Plot mentions a custom at Burford, in Oxfordshire (within memory) of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and...town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve ; to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a giant. Hist, of Oxfordshire, p. 349. But a farther... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1907 - 560 Seiten
...his History of Cambridgeshire (p. 349), mentions the custom at Burford of making a dragon annually and " carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve," to which he says, not knowing for what reason, "they added a Giant." (Brand, "Midsummer Eve.") Both the Dragon... | |
 | Ella Fuller Maitland - 1907 - 276 Seiten
...expenses incurred. Dr. Plott in his History of Oxfordshire, quoted by Brand, mentions a custom at Burford of " making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town on Midsummer Eve." A giant took part in the procession. Bonfires were also lit on Midsummer Eve—a... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 2007 - 682 Seiten
...in his History of Cambridgeshire, (p 349) mentions the custom at Burford of making a dragon annually and "carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve, to which he says, not knowing for what reason, "they added a Giant." (Brand, "Midsummer Eve"). Both the Dragon... | |
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