Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 14
... islands , if not numerous , at least very widely spread . It must be remembered that we have no systematic account of these antiquities in Britain , and that before any record of them was made , numbers may have been destroyed . The ...
... islands , if not numerous , at least very widely spread . It must be remembered that we have no systematic account of these antiquities in Britain , and that before any record of them was made , numbers may have been destroyed . The ...
Side 16
... islands in company with the Celts , after having obtained metal weapons , and having learned the construction of some ... island . The river that bounded their district , the Shannon ( Senus ) , was therefore named by their successors on ...
... islands in company with the Celts , after having obtained metal weapons , and having learned the construction of some ... island . The river that bounded their district , the Shannon ( Senus ) , was therefore named by their successors on ...
Side 17
... islands were the same people . And in fact all the seafaring tribes of the west and north of Europe , for a considerable period , were Hiberno - Celts . The five great headlands of Britain , on which are situated the modern counties of ...
... islands were the same people . And in fact all the seafaring tribes of the west and north of Europe , for a considerable period , were Hiberno - Celts . The five great headlands of Britain , on which are situated the modern counties of ...
Side 19
... islands , but especially in Britain . The name of the Iceni is not to be explained from Celtic , the original word being Cent ; but in Iberian ( Basque ) the is a frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning . The ...
... islands , but especially in Britain . The name of the Iceni is not to be explained from Celtic , the original word being Cent ; but in Iberian ( Basque ) the is a frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning . The ...
Side 20
... island , and the people who con- ferred it , belonged to the original settlers . It is difficult to fix anything near the time at which the first immigration took place . For geognostic reasons , says Worsaae , we may conclude that the ...
... island , and the people who con- ferred it , belonged to the original settlers . It is difficult to fix anything near the time at which the first immigration took place . For geognostic reasons , says Worsaae , we may conclude that 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