Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 10
... mention shall be made of it in a subsequent chapter . During the first or Stone age , the grave was constructed of large stones smoothened carefully inside , forming a chamber round which the earth was raised in an artificial hillock ...
... mention shall be made of it in a subsequent chapter . During the first or Stone age , the grave was constructed of large stones smoothened carefully inside , forming a chamber round which the earth was raised in an artificial hillock ...
Side 15
... mentioned in the same work . St. Iltut's hermitage in Brecknockshire , is constructed of three large stones fixed in the ground , with a fourth for a cover , and forms an 66 oblong hut , " open at one end , about eight feet in length ...
... mentioned in the same work . St. Iltut's hermitage in Brecknockshire , is constructed of three large stones fixed in the ground , with a fourth for a cover , and forms an 66 oblong hut , " open at one end , about eight feet in length ...
Side 18
... mentioned in Camden as existing in Wales , from one of which were taken five urns containing bones and ashes . Scott thus describes the cairns which , he says , crown the summits of most of the Scottish hills : " Six flat stones are ...
... mentioned in Camden as existing in Wales , from one of which were taken five urns containing bones and ashes . Scott thus describes the cairns which , he says , crown the summits of most of the Scottish hills : " Six flat stones are ...
Side 20
... mention is made of a people called the Tuadha de Danan , the Tuads of the Dan country ( Denmark ) — a celebrated tribe of enchanters . Their existence has been doubted , yet some of the same people colonised a part of Scotland , and ...
... mention is made of a people called the Tuadha de Danan , the Tuads of the Dan country ( Denmark ) — a celebrated tribe of enchanters . Their existence has been doubted , yet some of the same people colonised a part of Scotland , and ...
Side 24
... mentioned place would probably come in contact with the other colonists of the coast . We have several traces of central settlements , a principal one being in the neighbourhood of the Keswick Circle , and from thence to Ullswater ...
... mentioned place would probably come in contact with the other colonists of the coast . We have several traces of central settlements , a principal one being in the neighbourhood of the Keswick Circle , and from thence to Ullswater ...
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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