Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 4
... frequently no apparent connexion of lan- guage one with another . Craniologists , by their own admissions , could never have done so much . Why is linguistic science able to bridge over a gulf of more than four thousand years between ...
... frequently no apparent connexion of lan- guage one with another . Craniologists , by their own admissions , could never have done so much . Why is linguistic science able to bridge over a gulf of more than four thousand years between ...
Side 10
... 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 of this kind had but one chamber , it was ...
... 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 of this kind had but one chamber , it was ...
Side 11
... Frequently on the summit or side of a mound , is found an urn with burnt bones , whilst the bottom of the hill contains the real burial - place , namely , a giant's chamber with its unburnt corpses and stone utensils . And this is one ...
... Frequently on the summit or side of a mound , is found an urn with burnt bones , whilst the bottom of the hill contains the real burial - place , namely , a giant's chamber with its unburnt corpses and stone utensils . And this is one ...
Side 19
... frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning . The Bibroci ( whence Berkshire ) is most probably the Spanish Bebryces - containing the Iberian bi , two - and in Britain seems to have meant " the people of the ...
... frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning . The Bibroci ( whence Berkshire ) is most probably the Spanish Bebryces - containing the Iberian bi , two - and in Britain seems to have meant " the people of the ...
Side 26
... frequently did not under- stand . The first of this class is found in Caer Odor ( the ancient Bristol ) , then follow Caerleon and Caerwent in Monmouthshire , Caermarthen and Cardigan in Wales , Carlow in Ireland , Carnarvon BELGIC ...
... frequently did not under- stand . The first of this class is found in Caer Odor ( the ancient Bristol ) , then follow Caerleon and Caerwent in Monmouthshire , Caermarthen and Cardigan in Wales , Carlow in Ireland , Carnarvon BELGIC ...
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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