... children of Nature. The mischief they wrought in Britain, from the middle of the ninth century onwards, is indescribable. The Scoto-Irish schools, then in their most flourishing state (they trained ... designations of the days of the week, the names of the gods of Germany and the North appear; the kings trace their descent directly from them as their immediate ancestors; the Sagas and poems about them ... brokedown the antipathies of the tribes, and prepared the way for that of the kingdoms. In the midst of this work of construction, so incomplete as yet, but so full of hope, of these birthpangs of a...