This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...amply discussed in a former lecture; but, whether this was one of the special names for this particular harp, or the name of a particular fashion, or class of harps, it is at present quite beyond our reach to ascertain. Tho Com, -The fifth instrument on my list is the Corn; a word which simply and literally signifies a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...amply discussed in a former lecture; but, whether this was one of the special names for this particular harp, or the name of a particular fashion, or class of harps, it is at present quite beyond our reach to ascertain. Tho Com, -The fifth instrument on my list is the Corn; a word which simply and literally signifies a horn, but which, certainly, was applied only to a metallic instrument of music of the trumpet kind. Of this fact, as well as of the use of the Corn, we have many examples, of which the following will be sufficient for our present purpose. In the very ancient tale of the Tain Bo Fraich, already quoted in former lectures (where the three xxt. harpers, the sons of Uaitline and Boand who attended Fraech The coron his matrimonial visit to the palace of Cruaehan, are de-"ayer scribed) we are told that the young prince was attended in his "'J1, "0!, progress by seven Cornaire, or Corn players. Bo Frakitt "There were," says the tale, "seven Cornaires along with them, who had Corns of gold and of silver, and who wore clothes of various colours; their hair was fair-yellow, as if of gold, and they wore brilliant white shirts."'0 We have a description of another group of Cornaire from a different source, and a different tale of equal antiquity, exactly similar; I mean that in the tale called Tochmarc Feirbe," or the Courship of Ferb; and which is one of the most celebrated of its class. Ferb was the beautiful daughter of Gerg, the chief of Glenn-Geirg, in Ulster, and she was beloved by Maine, one of the sons of Ailill and Medb, the celebrated king and queen of Connacht. We are told that this young prince having, with the consent of his father and mother, determined on paying a visit to the court of the lady Ferb's ...
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Very Good- SUPER SALE Very Good-Three Volume Hardcover Set 1971 Lemma Reprint of the 1873 Williams and Norgate First Editions. B/W Illustrations. NOT library copies. NO underlines, NO writing. NOT pods. slight shelf soiling and several tiny pencil point indentation holes in Vol. 2. See our Scans. Celtic social customs, weapons. Irish land ownership, swords, clothing, medicine, harp music notation, (illustrated) food, warfare and much on Irish Druids and Druidism, Celtic Gods and Goddess. Three thick hardcover volumes. Many illus. Tight bindings Clean pages. Sturdy bindings. Green and Silver Title patch on Spines. Internally clean tight. See our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans. Do expect extra postage for the three books. Sale! ! ! As is.
