Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 19
... 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 that Celtiberians arrived in these islands , but ...
... 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 that Celtiberians arrived in these islands , but ...
Side 61
... believed to be interred in a large hill near Frederic's Sound in Seeland . The tradition that states this , is related by Saxo Grammaticus from a song old even in his time . The hill was opened three hundred years ago , but an ...
... believed to be interred in a large hill near Frederic's Sound in Seeland . The tradition that states this , is related by Saxo Grammaticus from a song old even in his time . The hill was opened three hundred years ago , but an ...
Side 93
... believed to take its name , could never have arisen as the name of a baron . We can understand the bay among bays , and the wolf among wolves , but not the wolf among men . The Celtic cnoc , notwithstanding its orthography , retains the.
... believed to take its name , could never have arisen as the name of a baron . We can understand the bay among bays , and the wolf among wolves , but not the wolf among men . The Celtic cnoc , notwithstanding its orthography , retains the.
Side 120
... believed in , and when the fables connected therewith assume really gigantic proportions . Yet those historical fragments of the first period that have been handed down to us , are in general so mixed up with the fabulous traditions of ...
... believed in , and when the fables connected therewith assume really gigantic proportions . Yet those historical fragments of the first period that have been handed down to us , are in general so mixed up with the fabulous traditions of ...
Side 130
... believed the outlaw of Sherwood Forest , and his lieutenant , are buried . It was once customary for every person who went a nutting in the wood , at the south end of which these heaps are situated , to throw a stone on Robin's grave ...
... believed the outlaw of Sherwood Forest , and his lieutenant , are buried . It was once customary for every person who went a nutting in the wood , at the south end of which these heaps are situated , to throw a stone on Robin's grave ...
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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