Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 8
... earliest immigrants of Europe seem to have come in two streams , one along the large rivers and inland seas of the north , the other by the coasts of the Mediterranean . At the present day , we find on the southern stream remnants of ...
... earliest immigrants of Europe seem to have come in two streams , one along the large rivers and inland seas of the north , the other by the coasts of the Mediterranean . At the present day , we find on the southern stream remnants of ...
Side 12
... earliest of the Indo - European stock . The people of the Bronze age stood on the same grade of culture as the Celts ; yet Prof. Worsaae cannot bring himself to suppose that they were anything but the Gothic ancestors of the present ...
... earliest of the Indo - European stock . The people of the Bronze age stood on the same grade of culture as the Celts ; yet Prof. Worsaae cannot bring himself to suppose that they were anything but the Gothic ancestors of the present ...
Side 16
... earliest inhabitants of Britain were Cambro - Celtic , in other words , that British and Welsh are identical . This erroneous opinion leads deeper into error . The oldest remains of the Celtic languages show clear traces of the ...
... earliest inhabitants of Britain were Cambro - Celtic , in other words , that British and Welsh are identical . This erroneous opinion leads deeper into error . The oldest remains of the Celtic languages show clear traces of the ...
Side 17
... early period the word kent ( pr . kant ) was changed into pen by the Cambro - Celts ; but was applied by them to hills , and never to promontories . Pembroke was previously Kentbroke ; and in the transformation of such names , we have ...
... early period the word kent ( pr . kant ) was changed into pen by the Cambro - Celts ; but was applied by them to hills , and never to promontories . Pembroke was previously Kentbroke ; and in the transformation of such names , we have ...
Side 19
... language has been the borrower . The Silures and the Brigantes were probably mixed people , or Celtiberians . Lay of the Last Minstrel , Notes . † Archæological Index . Such were the early colonists of Britain ; it remains.
... language has been the borrower . The Silures and the Brigantes were probably mixed people , or Celtiberians . Lay of the Last Minstrel , Notes . † Archæological Index . Such were the early colonists of Britain ; it remains.
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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