Citations:burgwall

English citations of burgwall

• 1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, volume 1, S. Birt, →OCLC, page 72:

  The ground on which this building stands is 2000 feet, and square every way, reckoning the motes or burgwall about it.

• 1842, Snorri Sturluson, translated by George W. Dasent, The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson, Norstedt and Sons, →ISBN, page 89:

  And when the falcon flew within over the burg and let himself sink down inside the burgwall, then the Asa set fire to the chips, but the eagle could not stop himself when he missed the falcon, […]

  [Skáldskaparmál 3.3: Ok þá er valrinn flaug inn of borgina, lét hann fallask niðr við borgarvegginn. Þá slógu Æsirnir eldi í lokarspánu, en ǫrninn mátti eigi stǫðva, er hann missti valsins.]

• 1888 October, F. T. Norris, “Guthram, Dane-King, and the Danes at Barking”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 265, number 1894, F. Jefferies, →OCLC, page 378:

  Standing on the earthen keep of the burgwall, as many another Dane before us has done, the commanding sweep of outlook which it yields is at once seen. Away to the south there, about five miles as the crow flies, over the Thames flood, is Shooter's Hill in Kent, and the ease with which communications could be set up with the Danes there is obvious, for the whole of Kent was at this time “thoroughfared” by them

• 1897, William Copeland Borlase, The Dolmens of Ireland, volume 3, Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, page 1131:

  Passing westward along the Prussian and Pomeranian coast, Lissauer has given us plans and sections of so-called burgwalls, one on the Silinsee, another on the Geserichsee, which, though built of stones and earth, recall, both in shape and in their position on the shore, the duns and cliff-castles of the west coast of Ireland (Fig. 788).

• 1913, Frank Egbert Bryant, quoting a translation of The Wife's Lament 30–32, A History of English Balladry, R. G. Badger, →OCLC, page 40:

  Dim are the dales, the dunes are high, / bitter my burgwalls, briar-covered, / joyless my dwelling.

  [Original: sindon dena dimme, dūna ūphēa, ⁠/ bitre burgtūnas, brērum beweaxne, / wīc wynna lēas.]

• 1964, R. E. H. Mellor, Geography of the U.S.S.R‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

  The Slavs appear late in history, culturally associated with the 'burgwall' village early in the present era. Their original home appears to have been in the forests and swamps of the Pripyat basin, where they could maintain their identity amid a terrain difficult to approach.

• 1985, Caroline Morris Stuckert, The Human Biology of Budeč, Czechoslovakia (dissertation), University of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, page 18:

  Libice is a burgwall, or walled fortification, and the sample comes from a graveyard associated with a church within the fortified area. Work at Libice has revealed Late Bronze Age occupation, and subsequent occupation from the Slavic period to the end of the 30 Years War.

• 1994, NJG Pounds, An Economic History of Medieval Europe, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 245:

  East of the Rhine, however, tribal fortresses known to the Germans as burgwalls and to the Slavs as grody or hrady were important. They were small earthworks which served as places of refuge in time of invasion and war. […]
  A number of large defensive works of this kind was built in the ninth century state of Great Moravia. Many of them were larger and more strongly built than the German burgwalls.