Download England:Stonehenge(GB006) APK latest version Free for Android
Version | 1.01 |
Update | 9 years ago |
Size | 5.60 MB (5,873,810 bytes) |
Developer | takemovies |
Category | Apps, Travel & Local |
Package Name | com.fc2.web.takemovies.stonehengegb006 |
OS | 2.3 and up |
England:Stonehenge(GB006) APPLICATION description
The Oxford English Dictionary cites Elfric's tenth-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning "precipice", or stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng "not far from Salisbury" recorded
by eleventh-century writers are "supported stones". William Stukeley in 1740 notes, "Pendulous rocks are now called henges in Yorkshire...I doubt not, Stonehenge in Saxon signifies the hanging
stones." Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning "stone", and either hencg meaning "hinge" (because
the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or hen(c)en meaning "hang" or "gallows" or "instrument of torture" (though elsewhere in his book, Chippindale cites the "suspended stones" etymology).
Like Stonehenge's trilithons, medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, rather than the inverted L-shape more familiar today.
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