...than accidental, and I think they justify the conclusion that, mediately or immediately, the irpd^eiy 'AvSpeov are the original of our Anglosaxon poem....pompous pedantry of Byzantium. From the time of Lucius Chariuus (the Manichean of the sixth century, to whom Thilo attributes the original legend) till that...

...allusion is here evidently to the Danes, who first made a settlement on the eastern coast of Ireland at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The author of the foregoing poem, therefore, must have lived after that event; but it is very probable...

...allusion is here evidently to the Danes, who first made a settlement on the eastern coast of Ireland at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The author of the foregoing poem, therefore, must have lived after that event; but it is very probable...

...Aileran. However, it is certainly antient, and cannot well be referred to a period much later than the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The traditions it has preserved of the history of Palladius may be quoted as a fifth antient document....

...consistency began to develop themselves from these chaotic elements. But if we transport ourselves to about the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century — the era of Charlemagne — we shall find a firm basis whence we may take a connected view of the political...

...combine into elaborate and harmonious designs. This art reached its most perfect stage of development at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The monks were wont to lavish all the wealth of their artistic skill on books containing the whole or portions...