Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 5
... character . Lastly , the present name , the Abbey Holm , was given when the Celtic had ceased to exert an influence , but while a knowledge of the meaning of " holme " remained . Abbey Holm is thus an Anglo - Danish translation of the ...
... character . Lastly , the present name , the Abbey Holm , was given when the Celtic had ceased to exert an influence , but while a knowledge of the meaning of " holme " remained . Abbey Holm is thus an Anglo - Danish translation of the ...
Side 11
... characters during the second period , but towards the end the ornaments convey the impression that writing must have been understood . The mixed metal of the Bronze age , it must be observed , contained nine - tenths copper and one ...
... characters during the second period , but towards the end the ornaments convey the impression that writing must have been understood . The mixed metal of the Bronze age , it must be observed , contained nine - tenths copper and one ...
Side 31
... characters of both languages . During the European transit of the Celts , the Cambrian division fell under an ... character of Welsh utterance is that of a violent separation of syllables , not unlike the well - known peculiarity ...
... characters of both languages . During the European transit of the Celts , the Cambrian division fell under an ... character of Welsh utterance is that of a violent separation of syllables , not unlike the well - known peculiarity ...
Side 32
... characters with the letter h . These peculiarities , indeed , increase the difficulties of Celtic etymology , but they enable the student to identify his words almost with certainty . Nothing in language has led to more unfounded ...
... characters with the letter h . These peculiarities , indeed , increase the difficulties of Celtic etymology , but they enable the student to identify his words almost with certainty . Nothing in language has led to more unfounded ...
Side 46
... character of lateness , that is , a great part of them belong to the present day , and nearly all the rest to the period immediately preceding . Substantive names have already become endings ; and through this arises a facility of ...
... character of lateness , that is , a great part of them belong to the present day , and nearly all the rest to the period immediately preceding . Substantive names have already become endings ; and through this arises a facility of ...
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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