Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... circle executed with remarkable industry , and frequently in districts where , at the present day , blocks of stone are not to be found . Sometimes the enclosure was oval , and contained two or three chambers ; and even when the graves ...
... circle executed with remarkable industry , and frequently in districts where , at the present day , blocks of stone are not to be found . Sometimes the enclosure was oval , and contained two or three chambers ; and even when the graves ...
Side 15
... circle , a vast rude stone placed on several pillars . The diameter of the area is about fifty feet . The stone supported in the midst of this circle is eighteen feet long and nine in breadth ; and , at one end , it is about three feet ...
... circle , a vast rude stone placed on several pillars . The diameter of the area is about fifty feet . The stone supported in the midst of this circle is eighteen feet long and nine in breadth ; and , at one end , it is about three feet ...
Side 24
... circle popularly known as Long Meg and her Daughters . In the same neighbourhood we find Great Dun Fell , Crowdundle and Knock Pike , which belong to this people , if not to so early a period . Around the coast appear traces of another ...
... circle popularly known as Long Meg and her Daughters . In the same neighbourhood we find Great Dun Fell , Crowdundle and Knock Pike , which belong to this people , if not to so early a period . Around the coast appear traces of another ...
Side 36
... circle , a remarkable piece of unproductive , stony ground in Martindale . CORNEY ( C. C. corn , a horn ) , with the ending ey , has become the name of a river , originally the peninsula . Cf. Corn - wall . CROGLIN , H. C. carraig , the ...
... circle , a remarkable piece of unproductive , stony ground in Martindale . CORNEY ( C. C. corn , a horn ) , with the ending ey , has become the name of a river , originally the peninsula . Cf. Corn - wall . CROGLIN , H. C. carraig , the ...
Side 50
... circle . - A . S. thweotan , to cut off . - Wyberthwaite , C. C. gwy , water , D. byr . Braithwaite is from the D. bred , broad , and Bra- thwaite from the D. brat , steep . Wath ( N. vadha ) , a ford . Longwathby ( pr . langaby ) , the ...
... circle . - A . S. thweotan , to cut off . - Wyberthwaite , C. C. gwy , water , D. byr . Braithwaite is from the D. bred , broad , and Bra- thwaite from the D. brat , steep . Wath ( N. vadha ) , a ford . Longwathby ( pr . langaby ) , the ...
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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