The Victorian philologist and ethnologist works backward through the peoples of Britain and Ireland, from the present populations and the Romans to the prehistoric period of the Irish elk, stone and bronze tools, burial customs, gold ornaments and early dwellings, then into the Irish annals and their kings, druids and legends, testing each source for what it can really show.
An early attempt to sort the many strands of British ancestry, of interest to historians of ideas and of the isles. Download the free EPUB.