 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1892 - 260 pages
...is selected for the rooftree. Six well-grown trees, with suitable branches apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as...rooftree is fixed. These trees supporting the rooftree form the nave of the tribal house. Then, at some distance back from these rows of columns or forks,... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1898 - 622 pages
...is selected for the roof-tree. Six well-grown trees with suitable branches, apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as...at the top each pair makes a fork, upon which the roof -tree is fixed. These trees supporting the roof -tree are called gavaels, forks, or columns, and... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1898 - 420 pages
...is selected for the roof-tree. Six well-grown trees with suitable branches, apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as the roof -tree, are stuck upright in the ground at even distances in two parallel rows, three in each row.... | |
 | Frederic Seebohm - Great Britain - 1905 - 524 pages
...is selected for the roof-tree. Six wellgrown trees, with suitable branches apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as...upright in the ground at even distances in two parallel rows—three in each row. Their extremities bending over make a Gothic arch, and crossing one another... | |
 | Sir John Rhys, Sir David Brynmor Jones, David Brynmor-Jones - History - 1906 - 734 pages
...is selected for the roof-tree. Six well-grown trees with suitable branches, apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as...rows, three in each row. Their extremities bending 1 See " English Village Community," pp. 239-40 ; " Report," p. 691. over make a Gothic arch, and crossing... | |
 | Morris M. Cohn - Constitutional history - 2000 - 248 pages
...even distances in two parallel rows—three in each row. Their extremities bending over make a gothie arch, and crossing one another at the top each pair...rooftree is fixed. These trees supporting the rooftree form the nave of the tribal house. Then, at some distance back from these rows of columns or forks,... | |
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A long straight pole is selected for the roof-tree. Six well-grown trees with suitable branches, apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as the roof-tree, are stuck upright in the ground at even distances in two parallel... 