Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 4
... becomes one of great difficulty . Such means should be used with caution , and only in aid of history and well - founded tradition . The principles on which the names of places and persons have been conferred , are then of the highest ...
... becomes one of great difficulty . Such means should be used with caution , and only in aid of history and well - founded tradition . The principles on which the names of places and persons have been conferred , are then of the highest ...
Side 7
... becomes an element of a people . The latter term will be used where the process of mixture or absorption is known to have been going on . The Cumbrian people , or the English people , will hold good , where race there is none . Nation ...
... becomes an element of a people . The latter term will be used where the process of mixture or absorption is known to have been going on . The Cumbrian people , or the English people , will hold good , where race there is none . Nation ...
Side 18
... becomes bean duci , the woman leader . Our unfortunate acquaintance , Vortigern , turns into fear tigherna ( vir tyrannus ) , the ruling man ; and his son , Vortimer , no doubt was fear timthire , his minister or lieutenant . The Cambro ...
... becomes bean duci , the woman leader . Our unfortunate acquaintance , Vortigern , turns into fear tigherna ( vir tyrannus ) , the ruling man ; and his son , Vortimer , no doubt was fear timthire , his minister or lieutenant . The Cambro ...
Side 33
... become so familiar through the Bible . Secondly , there is a vanity in language that wishes to explain every thing and make it intelligible . The Itawa of the Cherokees was converted by the Europeans into High Tower ; and our own ...
... become so familiar through the Bible . Secondly , there is a vanity in language that wishes to explain every thing and make it intelligible . The Itawa of the Cherokees was converted by the Europeans into High Tower ; and our own ...
Side 35
... become acquainted with it . " The name in full was Inis breithemh , the island of the judges , the oldest Cam- bricised form of which is Inis pryddain , as appears in the Welsh triads . Breathnach in the Irish language means Welshman ...
... become acquainted with it . " The name in full was Inis breithemh , the island of the judges , the oldest Cam- bricised form of which is Inis pryddain , as appears in the Welsh triads . Breathnach in the Irish language means Welshman ...
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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