 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1897 - 526 pages
...top each pair makes a fork, upon which the roof tree is fixed. These trees supporting the roof trees are called gavaels, forks, or columns, and they form the nave of the tribal house. Low walls of stakes and wattle shut in the aisles of the house, and over all is the roof of branches... | |
 | Frederic Seebohm - 1883 - 548 pages
...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 they form...the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the ends are the wattle doors of entrance. All along the aisles, behind the pillars, are placed beds of... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1892 - 260 pages
...the top each pair makes a fork, upon which the rooftree is fixed. These trees supporting the rooftree form the nave of the tribal house. Then, at some distance...the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the ends are the wattle doors of entrance."' Here the free tribesmen composing a household, if such it... | |
 | Sidney Oldall Addy - 1893 - 362 pages
...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 they form...the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the ends are the wattle doors of entrance."1 Mr. Seebohm then goes on to describe the internal arrangement... | |
 | Frederic Seebohm - 1896 - 546 pages
...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 they form...the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the ends are the wattle doors of entrance. All along the aisles, behind the pillars, are placed beds of... | |
 | Sir John Rhys, Sir David Brynmor Jones, David Brynmor-Jones - 1906 - 734 pages
...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 they form...behind the pillars are placed beds of rushes, called gwelyau (lectf), on which the inmates sleep. The footboards of the beds between the columns form their... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1916 - 648 pages
...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...of columns or forks low walls of stakes and wattle met in the aisles of the house, and over all is the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1916 - 282 pages
...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 they form...of columns or forks low walls of stakes and wattle met in the aisles of the house, and over all is the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the... | |
 | Frederic Seebohm - 508 pages
...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 they form...the roof of branches and rough thatch, while at the ends are the wattle doors of entrance. All along the aisles, behind the pillars, are placed beds of... | |
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These trees supporting the roof -tree are called gavaels, forks, or columns, and they form the nave of the tribal house. Then, at some distance back from these rows of columns or forks, low walls of stakes and wattle shut in the aisles of the house, and... 