Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 20
... existence has been doubted , yet some of the same people colonised a part of Scotland , and left their name to the river Tweed . The position on the coast of Britain , and the name in Irish history , identify them as emigrants from ...
... existence has been doubted , yet some of the same people colonised a part of Scotland , and left their name to the river Tweed . The position on the coast of Britain , and the name in Irish history , identify them as emigrants from ...
Side 32
... existence is now therefore best traced in its effects , which form many of the most striking changes of modern dialects . Traces of this organic peculiarity are strong and general in Russian , partial in Danish and Latin , scarcely to ...
... existence is now therefore best traced in its effects , which form many of the most striking changes of modern dialects . Traces of this organic peculiarity are strong and general in Russian , partial in Danish and Latin , scarcely to ...
Side 33
... existence even now would come to an end . To this class belongs the silly mistake of supposing the British balefires to have been the " fires of Baal , " which has solely arisen from the name having become so familiar through the Bible ...
... existence even now would come to an end . To this class belongs the silly mistake of supposing the British balefires to have been the " fires of Baal , " which has solely arisen from the name having become so familiar through the Bible ...
Side 61
... existence , the word being in English onthink , and the phrase " to think on " still current in the dialect . Bauta stones are invariably found in connexion with graves . The traditions connected with the names of places and persons ...
... existence , the word being in English onthink , and the phrase " to think on " still current in the dialect . Bauta stones are invariably found in connexion with graves . The traditions connected with the names of places and persons ...
Side 71
... existence . Taken absolutely , the phoneticism of language is but an imperfect representation of the idea , and written language still more im- perfectly represents the sounds it is intended to transfer to our organs . Possibly in the ...
... existence . Taken absolutely , the phoneticism of language is but an imperfect representation of the idea , and written language still more im- perfectly represents the sounds it is intended to transfer to our organs . Possibly in 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