 | Layamon, Frederic Madden - 1847 - 514 pages
...A/aKr[iat]. god gri)> )iorh alle )>ing. heuere to his lifue r' hif folk weren bli)>e. po com )>e ilk dai r' went' forth' their way home to their kin, and told...the same women, who there long dwelt, the folk gan to'speak [use] Irelands speech; and ever since 'the usages dwell [they do] in the land; ' so they shall... | |
 | Dugald Butler - Abernathy (Scotland) - 1897 - 604 pages
...form of it in Layamon's ' Brut ' it is undoubtedly used to explain the language of the Picts : — ' ' Through the same women Who there long dwelt, The folk gan to speak Ireland's speech." And the same idea is expressed in the chronicle quoted in the ' Scala Chronica,'... | |
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Peohtes were shamed, and went ' forth* their way home to their kin, and told ' to them' their errand. They took their messengers, and sent to Ireland, to VAe king of the land [the sovereign], named Gille Caor, and bade him send them women of his land... 