THE BOOKS OF ALBION: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF PETER DOHERTY.

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As a system, it is nearly all-encompassing: it gives form and meaning to the social structure, both the human and the divine; to the features and phenomena that constitute the physical world and its surroundings; to the sacrifices and observances involved in nearly all the major religious themes; to the beliefs underlying the early stirrings of science and medicine; and to the theory and practice of magic. This dictionary contains some 3,500 of the commonest words in Old English. Beginners will be able to translate simple passages of prose and verse from the rich variety of Old English texts. Advanced students will find it a rapid reference aid. The name Albion was used by Isidore of Charax (1st century BC – 1st century AD) [9] and subsequently by many classical writers. By the 1st century AD, the name refers unequivocally to Great Britain. But this "enigmatic name for Britain, revived much later by Romantic poets like William Blake, did not remain popular among Greek writers. It was soon replaced by Πρεττανία ( Prettanía) and Βρεττανία ( Brettanía 'Britain'), Βρεττανός ( Brettanós 'Briton'), and Βρεττανικός ( Brettanikós, meaning the adjective British). From these words the Romans derived the Latin forms Britannia, Britannus, and Britannicus respectively". [10] Ekwall, Eilert (1930). "Early names of Britain". Antiquity. 4 (14): 149–156. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00004464. S2CID 161954639.

This was S.W. Partington's only published book. His interpretation fails to distinguish between runes used in Scandinavia and England from the unrelated symbols used on the perpetual almanacs inscribed in wood and somewhat derogatorily termed 'clog almanacs'. However the information on understanding the symbols on these almanacs is not readily available elsewhere so I have prepared this PDF version. Howver treat all Partington's attributions for these signs with moderate amounts of caution, and do not take his interpretations of runes and other symbols to be more than pioneering.

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Singing Up the Country reveals that Bob Trubshaw has been researching a surprising variety of different topics since his last book six years ago. From Anglo-Saxon place-names to early Greek philosophy – and much in between – he creates an interwoven approach to the prehistoric landscape, creating a 'mindscape' that someone in Neolithic Britain might just recognise. This is a mindscape where sound, swans and rivers help us to understand the megalithic monuments. The root * albiyo- is also found in Gaulish and Galatian albio- 'world' and Welsh elfydd ( Old Welsh elbid 'earth, world, land, country, district'). It may be related to other European and Mediterranean toponyms such as Alpes, Albania or the river god Alpheus (originally 'whitish'). It has two possible etymologies: either from the Proto-Indo-European word * albʰo- 'white' (cf. Ancient Greek ἀλφός, Latin albus), or from * alb- 'hill'.

Keith Brian Hextall, the author of this book, sadly passed away in 2020 at the age of seventy-nine. His widow, Margaret, arranged for his extensive local history research to be published as a fitting memorial to all Keith's hard work gathering information and images to create a lasting archive for the villagers of Sapcote. This PDF edition of Meet the Dragon was prepared in 2015 by kind permission of Bill's literary executor, Joanne Harman. Several typing mistakes and inconsistencies with punctuation in the printed edition have been amended. However the wording and pagination remains the same as the 1996 booklet. The Whittlecreek and Eaton St Torpid Heritage Railway employs a General Manager (who does not like being called 'The General'), a formidable Property Manager (who does likes to be referred to as 'The PM'), a witticism-infested Operations Manager who socialises each week with the neophobic Workshop Manager, and a Gift Shop Manager (deemed 'nice but useless'). Childhood, adolescence, courtship and death. Personal identity and madness. These are the key themes of many myths in traditional Celtic literatures. Although written many centuries ago, their narratives still reflect and define our essential humanity.This excellent guide... is a typical Heart of Albion publication: thoroughly researched, nicely presented and also affordable!' The book contains not only a plethora of illustrations, but also a very full bibliography, referring to many unusual items. But Janet Bord's style is blessedly unacademic. All in all, like the author's other books, this is a synthesis of imagination, poetry and scholarship, a must-have-read for all interested in the ancient traditions of these islands. Peter Costello Irish Catholic Everything is Change is the fourth book in the Living in a Magical World series. These books will challenge you to recoergnise the traditional magic still alive in modern society, and empower you with a variety of skills and insights. Explore Green Men is illustrated with 118 photographs and drawings, mostly of Green Men who have never before showed their faces in books. Bob Trubshaw has been actively involved with academic and alternative approaches to archaeology for most of the last twenty years. In 1996 he founded At the Edge magazine to popularise new interpretations of past and place.

Janet Bord lives in North Wales. She and her husband Colin have written more than 20 books on folklore and mysteries since their first successful joint venture, Mysterious Britain (1972). This is an excellent guide to the landscape of Avebury. The instructions for movement are clear and precise and the dialogue format stops if from becoming a dry description of the route. It can be recommended to anyone with an interest in the area… ' The author's soft spot for the Socratic Method ensures a wide variety of topics – most of them decidedly arcane – emerge during numerous evening discussions in the Le Strange Arms, or between 'The PM' and 'The Management' as they go about their day-to-day business.

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The Especially Sacred Grove both draws upon and supercedes Bob Trubshaw's previous publications about Six Hills and the Leicestershire Wolds.