 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...rites of this festival at the Summer Solstice, may be considered as a counterpart of those used during the Winter Solstice at Yuletide. There is one thing...the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti, as will be shown elsewhere, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas. The learned Gebelin... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 512 pages
...the summer solstice, may be considered as a counterpart of those of the winter solstice at Yuletide. In the old Runic fasti, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas ; and Gebelin, in his " Origines Orientales," derives Yule from a primitive word, carrying with it... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 546 pages
...the summer solstice, may be considered as a counterpart of those of the winter solstice at Yuletide. In the old Runic fasti, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas ; and Gebelin, in his " Origines Orientales," derives Yule from a primitive word, carrying with it... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...more Till you shake her in ."] MIDSUMMER EVE. THE Pagan rites of this festival at the summer solstice may be considered as a counterpart of those used at...the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti, as will be shown elsewhere, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas. The learned Gebelin... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 580 pages
...more Till you shake her in ."] MIDSUMMER EVE. THE Pagan rites of this festival at the summer solstice may be considered as a counterpart of those used at...the winter solstice at Yule-tide. There is one thing tliat seems to prove this beyond the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti, as will be shown... | |
 | Mary Alice Seymour - 1858 - 280 pages
...was in use long before he landed at Dover. Others take it from the Saxon Gehweol, a wheel, because in the old Runic Fasti a wheel was used to denote the sun's annual course, after the winter solstice. All Celtic nations have worshipped the sun as a symbol... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 pages
...splendid bonfire on Cairnbeg, round which merry groups danced torch in hand. at the summer solstice may be considered as a counterpart of those used at the winter solstice at Yule-tide." The wheel, the type of the sun, was common to both festivities. Darand describes the practice, at the... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1885 - 304 pages
...features of the heathen Paganalia. The Pagan rites of the festival at the summer Solstice may be regarded as a counterpart of those used at the winter Solstice at Yule-tide. There is one thing which proves this beyond the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti a wheel was used to denote... | |
 | 1800 - 116 pages
...Bel." It has been remarked that the Pagan rites of the festival of Midsummer Eve, the Summer Solstice may be considered as a counterpart of those used at the Winter Solstice of Yule-tide. "There is one thing," says Brand, " that seems to prove this beyond the possibility of... | |
 | John Brand - 1895 - 602 pages
...in ."] MIDSUMMER EVE. THE Pagan rites of this festival at the summer solstice may be considered aa a counterpart of those used at the winter solstice...the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti, as will be shown elsewhere, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas. The learned Gebelin... | |
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There is one thing that seems to prove this beyond the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti, as will be shown elsewhere, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas. 
