CORBINS, MEADOWS, VERNONS.....

by

Dallie Arnold Vernon, Sr.

Copyright © 1993 by Dallie Arnold Vernon, Sr. All rights reserved. No part of this book

may be changed in any form or fashion

without permission in writing from the author,

but may be copied for genealogical pursuits.

"'The songs with which the Northern Bards regaled the heroes at their 'Feast of Shells' were but versified chronicles of ancestral line, symphonied by their stirring deeds. Through the oak fire's uncertain flame, the chieftain saw descend the shadowy forms of his fathers; they came from the halls of Odin as the harper swept the strings, and deployed before their descendant, rejoicing in the sound of their praise.' No parchment told his lineage to the warrior of those days, but the heroic names were branded each night upon his swelling heart by the burning numbers of the bard. Thus did the Northman chronicle his ancestry in those unlettered times. Afterwards, when the oak fire was extinguished, the shell thrown by, and the night no more with songs...when we reached the age of records...we find this love of lineage availing itself of the new method of commemoration. This strong ancestral spirit of the Norman may be traced partly to the profound sentiment of perpetuity which formed the principal and noblest element of his character, and partly to the nature of the property to which he was linked by the immemorial customs of the Teuton race."

(Excerpted from Handbook of Heraldry by John E. Cussans)

Grateful appreciation to the estate of John E. Cussans, and publishers Chatto Windus of England.

This book is dedicated

and their grandchildren