I have come to the conclusion that we cannot do better than follow the story of Geoffrey, which makes Stonehenge the work of Merlin Emrys, commanded by another Emrys, which I interpret to mean that the temple belonged to the Celtic Zeus, whose later legendary... Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 3611888Full view - About this book
| 1888 - 736 pages
...whose temple Stonehenge was, or whose it chiefly was. After giving it all the attention I can, I have come to the conclusion that we cannot do better than...to look for any direct argument for or against such an hypothesis : one can only say that it suits the facts of the case, and helps to understand others... | |
| Edgar Barclay - 1895 - 242 pages
...to Christianity afterwards took place, etc. PROF. JOHN RHYS.— The Hibbert Lectures, 1886, p. 194. which makes Stonehenge the work of Merlin Emrys, commanded...Zeus, whose later legendary self we have in Merlin." PROF. AT EVANS, MA— " Stonehenge." Archaological Rwiew, vol. ii, Sept.-Feb., 1888-1889. Speaks of... | |
| Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1897 - 272 pages
...Whose temple Stonehenge was, or whose it chiefly was ? After giving it all the attention I can, I have come to the conclusion that we cannot do better than...Zeus whose later legendary self we have in Merlin." In the same county as Stonehenge, but further north, is a second collection of great stones, now unfortunately... | |
| Harold John Massingham - 1926 - 192 pages
...the engineer of Stonehenge. "After giving it all the attention I can," writes Prof. Rhys,* "I have come to the conclusion that we cannot do better than...Geoffrey which makes Stonehenge the work of Merlin." This time Merlin is associated not with King Vortigern but Aurelius. After his victory over the Saxons,... | |
| John David North - 1996 - 664 pages
...his audience that they could do no better than follow Geoffrey of Monmouth. The temple, he said, was 'the work of Merlin Emrys, commanded by another Emrys,...Zeus, whose later legendary self we have in Merlin'. Such opinions are a reminder that astronomers have never had a monopoly of Stonehenge lunacy. The Coming... | |
| Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1901 - 1066 pages
...etc. ["Heathendom"]. Hibbert Lectures ; 8vo., xi., 708 : London. Stonehenge was a temple belonging to the " Celtic Zeus, whose later legendary self we have in Merlin." It was probably the famous temple of Apollo mentioned by Pytheas (see pp. 192 — 195 ; and 197). 1891.... | |
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