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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. Year 1926. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The nucleus of this book is the six Rhind Lectures delivered in 1916. Since then I have continued work on the subject and have rewritten and expanded the original part and have added much fresh matter. To deal exhaustively with our Celtic names of places is beyond the power of any one man and I have not attempted anything of that sort. At the same time certain elements have been treated of with some approach to completeness and in the regional surveys I have tried to give a fair idea of the general character of the names found in the various districts. The names of course reflect the language or languages spoken at one time or another in the regions where they occur and thus compel inquiry into the historical circum- stances under which they arose. The study in fact touches the very roots of our history involving points that have occasioned keen controversy. Here I have tried in all cases to go back to the original authorities and as a con- sequence some of the conclusions are so old as perhaps to have the appearance of novelty. This applies especially to the treatment of the problems connected with the position geographical and political of the Picts and the extent and nature of early Gaelic influence. As to the linguistic and racial position in the early part of the Christian era and before that time I would hold with the Irish Nennius that the Britons at first filled the whole island with their children from the sea of Icht to the sea of Ores’ i.e. from the English Channel to the far north. The ruling families throughout were of the same Celtic stock; under them were the pre-Celtic inhabitants. Conversely I would hold with Kuno Meyer that no Gael. (SP)