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Tag: Visigoth

Ya en los nidos de antaño no hay pájaros ocaño

An elderly Andalusian’s way of saying “this year” may constitute early warning of global (or at least Peninsular) cataclysm, perhaps a regional franchise of the 2012 phenomenon.

The Visigoths in history and legend

One of Spanish nationalism’s numerous Achilles heels.

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  • Nicholas Barrington: The caves of Mendip (1957) £31.50
  • Martin Carver (ed.): The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (1992) £25.20
  • John Rutter: Delineations of the North Western Division of the county of Somerset and of its antediluvian bone caverns (1829) £180.00
  • Leonard Woolley: Ur excavations Vol 4 the early periods (1956) £225.00
  • Martin A.C. Hinton: Rivers and lakes: the story of their development (1924) £36.00

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