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Sabine Baring-Gould
1834 – 1924 • English • Clergyman
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Showing 60 quotesAccording to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.— Sabine Baring-Gould
In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren.— Sabine Baring-Gould
About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.— Sabine Baring-Gould
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.— Sabine Baring-Gould