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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 169
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The customs of a people freq uently J survive their do-
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minion. Those of the Northmen of Dublin were not
all abolished by the Anglo Normans. And we find
that the Bowling Green, the archery butts, the place
for those games, which Harris calls Tib and Tom,
and for the miracle plays and pageants were at the
mount, and that on this mount the Mayor of Dublin Mayor and
sat with his jurats under a tent,
"
presiding over the mount.
armed musters of the citizens. 1
We should recollect that it was at the Thingmount
the public games of the Northmen were always
held, 2 and that on the Althing, under a tent, the
" Godi " or chief magistrate of the district sat with
his " lagmen," surrounded by armed freemen. Nor The mount
1
*
should we forget that this custom apparently preserved wall of* the"
in Dublin continued until recently in the Isle of Man
where the chief of the island or his representative sat
under a canopy on the Thingwall mount with his
[* At this mount, too, was held corder of the City, and Richard
the election for the Parliament, Barr Alderman." Calendar of
which met in A. D. 1613. "The27th State Papers of King James I., A.D.
of April the Mayor (Sir James 1611-1614, p. 441. The editor of
Carroll), taking the first election to Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica
be void, about 10 o'clock in the having no knowledge of this mount
forenoon gave directions for pro- or these butts, and the enrolment
clamation to be made in several with the account of this election
parts of the City that at 2 o'clock having no capital letters nor puncin
the
would
afternoon of that day he
proceed to election at a
tuation, he could not understand
"
hoggen but," and dropped the
place called Hoggen but near the latter word and wrote " at a place
City and within its liberties, which called Hoggen." Vol. I., p. 244,
was made accordingly, at which 8vo, Dublin, 1773.]
time and place in a great assembly
*
I listoire de Suede par Erik
of the inhabitants as well free of Gust. Geyer traduit par J. F. de
the City as not free the Mayor Lundbhad, p. 31, 8vo, Paris, 1840.
nominated Richard Bolton, He-