Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions . BOOK II. OF THE PEOPLE OP ENGLAND. 45 ing in praise of the heroes of their country, frequently add to the restof their acquirements a superiority of skill in handling of the Itdoes not, however, appear, that this skill was extended beyon
Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions . BOOK II. OF THE PEOPLE OP ENGLAND. 45 ing in praise of the heroes of their country, frequently add to the restof their acquirements a superiority of skill in handling of the Itdoes not, however, appear, that this skill was extended beyond the pur-pose of procuring food or for pastime, either by the Saxons or by theDanes, in times anterior to the III. Representations of the bow occur frequently in the Saxon ma-nuscripts; and from one of them, written about the eighth century,0 Ihave selected two archers, which the reader will find upon the fourth one accompanied by his dog, is in search of the wild deer; theother has no companion, but is depicted in the act of shooting at abird; and, from the adornment of his girdle, appears to have been nobad marksman/ The same plate contains a Saxon bow and arrow,upon a larger scale, taken from a manuscript of the tenth bow is curiously ornamented, having the head and tail of a ser-pent carved at the ends ; and
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