Old village life; or, Glimpses of village life through all ages . etal-worker, and belongs to Scandinavianlegend and sagas. These tell us of the myth of theSun-horse, a white steed called Gravie, ridden bySigurd, and shod by Weiland the Smith god. Henceit must be, as my friend Colonel Haines has pointedout, that at some time, long after the building ofthe barrow, some Scandinavian folk came to theBerkshire Downs and associated the old grave withthe legend of Weiland, and called it the redoubtableSmiths forge. He thinks also that the horse mustalso have been dug out by them, but this is conjec-
Old village life; or, Glimpses of village life through all ages . etal-worker, and belongs to Scandinavianlegend and sagas. These tell us of the myth of theSun-horse, a white steed called Gravie, ridden bySigurd, and shod by Weiland the Smith god. Henceit must be, as my friend Colonel Haines has pointedout, that at some time, long after the building ofthe barrow, some Scandinavian folk came to theBerkshire Downs and associated the old grave withthe legend of Weiland, and called it the redoubtableSmiths forge. He thinks also that the horse mustalso have been dug out by them, but this is conjec-tural. There are many so-called Csesars camps inEngland, though Julius Caesar never saw them, 1 English Villages, p. 33. 12 OLD VILLAGE LIFE and these were made long before his attempt toconquer Britain, though the Romans used have one in Berkshire, the only importantearthwork in the eastern portion of our lies upon the edge of a high plateau, and itsramparts follow the contours of the ground, pro-ducing a camp somewhat like an oak leaf. There. BRITISH CAMP, HEREFORDSHIRE BEACON, MALVERN(From Windles Prehistoric Age) is another and more famous Caesars camp at Alder-shot, owing to its modern military renown, whichwas in existence at least a thousand years before theRoman conquerors time; and there is another atFolkestone, deemed by old antiquaries to havebeen a Roman pharos, which is certainly of theNorman period. Indeed, one has to unlearn muchthat was formerly taught us with assertions of PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS 13 authority. An illustration is given of the famousHerefordshire Beacon, near Malvern, which was aBritish camp. It obtained its present name ofBeacon because it was used in later times as a placefor a bonfire to arouse the county in case of invasion,as when the Armada threatened England. Youwill remember Macaulays spirited poem on thechain of bonfires that summoned all Englishmen todefend their country as each fire was lighted— From Eddystone to Ber
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