The Book of the Sword

Note 86 — Chapter II · MAN’S FIRST WEAPONS—THE STONE AND THE STICK. THE EARLIEST AGES OF WEAPONS. THE AGES OF WOOD, OF BONE, AND OF HORN.

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It is better to write Crannog, lest the word be pronounced ‘crannoje.’ It derives from the Irish crann (a tree, e.g. crann ola = an olive-tree), and properly means a platform or plank-floor.

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