Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... called upon to bring into alto - relief the parts of his subject hitherto neglected or slighted , namely , Celtic and Norse . But since then , local archæology has been looking up , the ethnography of the district , with Norse in the ...
... called upon to bring into alto - relief the parts of his subject hitherto neglected or slighted , namely , Celtic and Norse . But since then , local archæology has been looking up , the ethnography of the district , with Norse in the ...
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... called etymology . The satisfactory " etymons " supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more deceptive than in those names . Whilst crude theories , imperfect research - which is generally worse than no research - and absurd ...
... called etymology . The satisfactory " etymons " supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more deceptive than in those names . Whilst crude theories , imperfect research - which is generally worse than no research - and absurd ...
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... called ) who colonised Persia , as well as the northern parts of India , and who came westward into Europe in four great divisions : the Celtic , the Greek - Latin , the Gothic , and the Slavic . Probably the Caspian divided them , and ...
... called ) who colonised Persia , as well as the northern parts of India , and who came westward into Europe in four great divisions : the Celtic , the Greek - Latin , the Gothic , and the Slavic . Probably the Caspian divided them , and ...
Side 10
... called from the enormous labour bestowed on their construction , belong evidently to this period . They are found in large artificial hills , and in conspicuous places , and are all provided with long entrances made , like the chambers ...
... called from the enormous labour bestowed on their construction , belong evidently to this period . They are found in large artificial hills , and in conspicuous places , and are all provided with long entrances made , like the chambers ...
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... 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 , sometimes in such good preservation that it may be blown ...
... 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 , sometimes in such good preservation that it may be blown ...
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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