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" Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to which the blind people paid divine honour. "
Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 9
1891
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The works of Gildas and Nennius, tr. by J.A. Giles

Gildas (st.) - 1841 - 220 pages
...mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills ; or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to...
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Six Old English Chronicles

John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 546 pages
...mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to...
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pages
...mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 187

1944 - 358 pages
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to...
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The Celtic magazine, conducted by A. Mackenzie and A. MacGregor, Volume 9

Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 pages
...mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to...
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Celtic Mythology and Religion

Alexander Macbain - 1885 - 126 pages
...mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to...
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Six Old English Chronicles, of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1891 - 564 pages
...fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once wjre an abomination and destruction to them, and to which the blind people paid divine honour. I shall also pass over the bygone times of our cruel tyrants, whose notoriety was spread over to far...
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The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England: Including Rivers, Lakes ...

Robert Charles Hope - 1893 - 264 pages
...usibus utiles, quibus divinus honor a caeco tune populo cumulabatur." — Par. 4. " Nor will I call out the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers,...567, and by other laws, but such commands are seldom obeyed. So deeply rooted was this feeling of veneration for the Holy Wells, that efforts were made...
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Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to ..., Volume 27

Powys-land Club - 1893 - 446 pages
...his countrymen, the Welsh, tells us that at one time they paid divine honour to water. His words are: "Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains,...to the use of men, but once were an abomination and obstruction to them, and to which the blind people paid divine honour," The preceding species of idolatry...
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