Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... district , with Norse in the ascendant , has been several times before the public in the form of lectures ; and the Norse element especially has been treated in an elaborate work , the " Northmen in Cumberland and Westmorland , " by Mr ...
... district , with Norse in the ascendant , has been several times before the public in the form of lectures ; and the Norse element especially has been treated in an elaborate work , the " Northmen in Cumberland and Westmorland , " by Mr ...
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... districts , the Lapps , the Esthonians , and the Livonians . The Finns , doubtless the most widely spread in central Europe , are described by Tacitus as extremely wild and poor . They lived by their bows , and for want of iron , made ...
... districts , the Lapps , the Esthonians , and the Livonians . The Finns , doubtless the most widely spread in central Europe , are described by Tacitus as extremely wild and poor . They lived by their bows , and for want of iron , made ...
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... 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 of this kind had but one chamber , it was placed very near ...
... 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 of this kind had but one chamber , it was placed very near ...
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... districts ; in one parish , there yet stand above a hundred Stone graves . The graves and giants ' chambers of this period are likewise found in the south - west of the present Sweden , namely , in the old Danish countries of Schonen ...
... districts ; in one parish , there yet stand above a hundred Stone graves . The graves and giants ' chambers of this period are likewise found in the south - west of the present Sweden , namely , in the old Danish countries of Schonen ...
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... district only , but are thinly scattered through the islands , and modern Irish , therefore Hiberno - Celtic , -shows a strong phonetic tinge , not belonging to the original stock , which exists to some extent in all the modern Tatár ...
... district only , but are thinly scattered through the islands , and modern Irish , therefore Hiberno - Celtic , -shows a strong phonetic tinge , not belonging to the original stock , which exists to some extent in all the modern Tatár ...
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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