And amongst other works which were by him erected, he builded a citie in the south part of Wales, neare to the place where the riuer of Vske falleth into Seuerne, fast by Glamorgan, which citie hight Caerleon, or Caerlegion Ar Wiske.
One by one we discovered our horses on the mountain side, trembling at the giddy hight to which, in their terror, and while enveloped in fog, they had clambered.
Thus in the Morte Arthur, Sir Dinadan makes a reproachful lay against King Arthur, and teaches it an harper, that hight Elyot, and sends him to sing it before King Mark and his nobles at a great feast.
And a little thence is another city, that men call Dispolis, but it hight some time Lidda, a fair city and a well inhabited: there is a kirk of Saint George, where he was headed.
In the country of Turkestan be but few good cities; but the best city of that land hight Octorar.
And all be it that these things touch not to one way, nevertheless they touch to that, that I have hight you, to shew you a part of customs and manners, and diversities of countries.
It hath but two mountains in that country, of the which one hight Symar and that other Lyson.
And so befell that the king had war with them of Scythia, the which king hight Colopeus, that was slain in battle, and all the good blood of his realm.
In the forest be two good cities; that one hight Fladrine and that other Zinglantz, and in every of them dwell Christian men and Jews, great plenty.
Also in the head of that sea of Galilee, toward the septentrion is a strong castle and an high that hight Saphor.
And under it there is a town that hight Sobach, and there, all about, dwell Christian men, under tribute.
And the town is called Jaffa; for one of the sons of Noah that hight Japhet founded it, and now it is clept Joppa.
For a cursed emperor of Persia, that hight Saures, pursued all Christian men to destroy them and to compel them to make sacrifice to his idols, and rode with great host, in all that ever he might, for to confound the Christian men.
And after, one of these Comanians reigned, that hight Cachas, and slew Tympieman, for to be soldan; and made him be clept Melechmenes.
And beside that church is a chapel, beside the rock that hight Gethsemane.
And some men clepe it Ganges, for a king that was in Ind, that hight Gangeres, and that it ran throughout his land.
And after, he was governor and prince of the land of Cozrodane; and he governed it full wisely, in such manner, that when the prince was dead, he took the lady to wife that hight Gadrige.
And when they were in a plain that hight Megon, anon this cursed emperor met with them with his host for to have slain them and hewn them to pieces.
I crossed the river at a bridge considerably above that hight of London; for, not being acquainted with the way, I missed the turning which should have brought me to the latter.
But they are absorbed in their own passions, and the storm now raging at the hight of its fury has many strange sounds of its own as it surges around the ivy-mantled room.
On his left hand now was Hart of Highcliff wielding a good sword hight Chip-driver, wherewith he had slain and hurt a many, fighting wisely with sword and shield, and driving the point home through the joints of the armour.
Thus my kindred biddeth me say, and I hight Fork-beard of Lea.
Then said a man of the Wolf hight Hardgrip: 'Wood-wicked was slain betwixt the bent and the houses.
But his mother, who was hight the Jewel, and had been a very fair woman, was dead now, and Iron-face lacked a wife.
Nought befell them of evil that day, but ever fresh companies joined them on the road; and they gat harbour in another walled town, hight Sevenham, and rested there in peace that night, and were now grown to eighty hundreds.
Now then by law was the Marshal, who hight Rolf, lord and earl of the land of Oakenrealm.
Forty and two feete was the hight of ye newe chapelle and yt was ybuttressed with faire buttresses and walls slantwise at ye cornere.
Forty and two feete was the hight of ye newe chapelle, and yt was ybuttressed with faire buttresses, and walls slantwise at ye cornere.
Now this knight, hight the Black Knight, had dwelt there summer and winter five years, striving with all-comers for the sake of his love.
He hadn't thought of such a thing--his aim was still only a warm place to sleep in; but he immediately set down better clothes as another hight to be attained.
Suppose he did, worked for him say, and earned a warm place to sleep in of nights--this was the hight of his present ambition.
And this was the hight and end and aim of Tode's ambition.
Their capteine hight Corineus, a man of great modestie and approoued wisedome, and thereto of incomparable strength and boldnesse.
That which descendeth from northwest, and riseth about saint Kew, is named Carneseie, as I heare: the other that commeth in on the southwest banke hight Laine, and noted by Leland to rise two miles aboue S.
It séemeth in some mens iudgements to part Northwales and Westwales in sunder, and the same which in Latine hight Deuus, in Welsh or British Difi or Dewie, whereof the Latine doth séeme to fetch his sound.
The other hight Medguinus, and was thereto surnamed Belga, bicause he was of the towne of Welles, which then was called Belga.
The other hight Londy, wherein is also a village or towne, and of this Iland the parson of the said towne is not onelie the captaine, but hath thereto weife, distresse, and all other commodities belonging to the same.
But now that region hight Wales, of the Germane word Walsh, whereby that nation dooth vse to call all strangers without respect of countrie.
Cluedoch, after their confluence: the other hight Lomaron, whose head is aboue Lanthangle, and in the forrest of Blethwag.
In British it hight Dourbrée: and thereof Rochester was sometime called Durobreuum.
At length the knight spoke: "I hight Sir Galahad of the Table Round.
Mallory's head was throbbing, and he saw two damosels that hight Rowena instead of only one.
And so he labored till that they came to a city that hight Sarras.
Reluctantly, Mallory encephalopathed his two rohorses to halt, and said the only thing he had left to say: "I hight Sir Thomas of the castle Yore.
I hight Sir Galahad of the Table Round," he called out in as bold a voice as he could muster.
Merlin would be upset no end if there were two damosels that hight Rowena gallivanting around the countryside at the same time.
There was, to be sure, the problem of what to do about a certain damosel that hight Rowena, but he would face that when he came to it.
Ban of Benwieke, and the other hight king Bors of Gaul, that is, France.
Shall I seeme Crest-falne in my fathers sight, Or with pale beggar-feare impeach my hight Before this out-dar'd dastard?
Har answered: The food that is placed on his table he gives to his two wolves, which hight Gere and Freke.
The one hight Skol, he runs after her; she fears him and he will one day overtake her.
His wifehight Sygin, and their son, Nare, or Narfe.
A king in Troy hight Munon or Mennon, his wife was a daughter of the head-king Priamos and hight Troan; they had a son who hight Tror, him we call Thor.
Thus is it here said: Hrasvelg highthe Who sits at the end of heaven, A giant in eagle’s disguise.
Thus it is here said: Glitner hight the hall, On gold pillars standing, And roofed with silver.
A king in Denmark hight Rolf Krake, and was the most famous of all kings of olden times; moreover, he was more mild, brave and condescending than all other men.
Answered Har: The next thing was that when the rime melted into drops, there was made thereof a cow, which hight Audhumbla.
The first of them therefore hight Tudo, which comming betweene Epwell and the Lee by Toddington, ioineth about [Sidenote: Ornus.
It seemeth in some mens iudgements to part Northwales and Westwales in sunder, and the same which in Latine hight Deuus, in Welsh or British Difi or Dewie, whereof the Latine doth seeme to fetch his sound.
In British ithight Dourbree: and thereof Rochester was sometime called Durobreuum.
Forrest, so the next vnto it hight Mile, as I haue heard in English.
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