INTRODUCTION
It would seem fitting for a Northern folk, deriving the greater
and better part of their speech, laws, and customs from a
Northern root, that the North should be to them, if not a holy
land, yet at least a place more to be regarded than any part of
the world beside; that howsoever their knowledge widened of other
men, the faith and deeds of their forefathers would never lack
interest for them, but would always be kept in remembrance. One
cause after another has, however, aided in turning attention to
classic men and lands at the cost of our own history. Among
battles, "every schoolboy" knows the story of Marathon or
Salamis, while it would be hard indeed to find one who did more
than recognise the name, if even that, of the great fights of
Hafrsfirth or Sticklestead. The language and history of Greece
and Rome, their laws and religions, have been always held part of
the learning needful to an educated man, but no trouble has been
taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue.
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