 | Robert Macgregor - Games - 1881 - 226 pages
...first of May, which is called Beltane or Baltein-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet on the moors. They cut a table in the green sod of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast... | |
 | John Collett (poet.) - 1883 - 236 pages
...Accounts of Scotland, vol. iii., p. 105.) ' On the first day of May, which is called Beltan, or Baltein day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in...green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground, of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire and dress a repast... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 502 pages
...' In some parts of the Highlands the young folks of a hamlet meet in the moors on the first of May. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by cutting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They then kindle... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 pages
...of May," it says, " which is called Beltan or Bal-tein, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet on the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire and dress a repast... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - Clans - 1884 - 604 pages
...of May," it says, " which is called Beltan or Bal-tein, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet on the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire and dress a repast... | |
 | Henry William J. Senior - Anglo-Israelism - 1885 - 208 pages
...p. 105). "On the first day of May, which is called Beltan or Beltain day, all the boys in a township meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground, of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1883 - 488 pages
...' In some parts of the Highlands the young folks of a hamlet meet in the moors on the first of May. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by cutting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They then kindle... | |
 | English Dialect Society - 1888 - 508 pages
...'In some parts of the Highlands the young folks of a hamlet meet in the moors on the first of May. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by cutting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They then kindle... | |
 | 1890 - 786 pages
...be taken notice of, while they remain. Upon the iirst day of May, which is called Beltan, wBal-tein day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in...green sod. of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground, of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a... | |
 | Fire - 1800 - 116 pages
...be taken notice of while they remain. Upon the first day of May, which is called Beltau or Baltein Day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in...green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast... | |
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Beltan or 2&/-&2#-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a... 
