Who were the Druids ? This question has agitated the minds of the learned for a long time, and the replies have been various, as well as contradictory. Tradition preserves their memory as of a pious and superior race, prominently associated with the British Isles and France, and, in a lesser degree, with Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the lands of Scandinavia. Much romance has been long attached to them. We hear their chants in the Stone Circles. We listen to the heaven-inspired utterances of the Archdruid, as he stands on the capstone of a cromlech, in the eye of the sun, surrounded by the...
Who were the Druids ? This question has agitated the minds of the learned for a long time, and the replies have been various, as well as contradictory...