Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... Amongst the antiquities are found the peculiar kind of axe called the celt , knives very nearly resembling those of the present day , swords , battle - axes , daggers , lance - heads , shields , and the war - trumpet called the lur ...
... Amongst the antiquities are found the peculiar kind of axe called the celt , knives very nearly resembling those of the present day , swords , battle - axes , daggers , lance - heads , shields , and the war - trumpet called the lur ...
Side 17
... other hand , the Cambro- Celtic term for capes was corn , a horn , as in Cornwall . Amongst the latest of the Hiberno - Celtic colonists , prior to the * Owen's Welsh Dictionary . C Roman conquest , were the Brigantes and Silures . The.
... other hand , the Cambro- Celtic term for capes was corn , a horn , as in Cornwall . Amongst the latest of the Hiberno - Celtic colonists , prior to the * Owen's Welsh Dictionary . C Roman conquest , were the Brigantes and Silures . The.
Side 19
... amongst the colonists of the British Isles . Tacitus believed that the Silures were of that race , concluding from their dark colour , crisped hair , and the appearance of the country . The evidence here offered , only proposes to show ...
... amongst the colonists of the British Isles . Tacitus believed that the Silures were of that race , concluding from their dark colour , crisped hair , and the appearance of the country . The evidence here offered , only proposes to show ...
Side 42
... amongst other places establishing themselves at Plumpton , Hutton , and , finally , at Newton . In this part of Cumberland we have them fully identified ; the people who lived about them knew well who they were , and therefore named the ...
... amongst other places establishing themselves at Plumpton , Hutton , and , finally , at Newton . In this part of Cumberland we have them fully identified ; the people who lived about them knew well who they were , and therefore named the ...
Side 47
... amongst mixed names of towns , barrows , and monu- mental stones , must be very numerous . ANGLE TERMINATIONS . Bury , berry ( N. byr , a farmhouse ) , a village originating in a farmhouse . Ey ( H. C. i , D. ö , an island , H. C. innis ...
... amongst mixed names of towns , barrows , and monu- mental stones , must be very numerous . ANGLE TERMINATIONS . Bury , berry ( N. byr , a farmhouse ) , a village originating in a farmhouse . Ey ( H. C. i , D. ö , an island , H. C. innis ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cultram Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton custom Danes Danish Denmark district doubt Eamont Edenhall England English euphonic Europe evidence existence fairies fell fire fireworship former German giants Gothic graves Hiberno-Celtic hill Iberian inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish language island Kendal kind Kirkby Kirkby Stephen Kirkby Thore Lancashire land language late latter Luck of Edenhall means mixed modern monument mountain names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation race remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Silures Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae