Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 17
... mountain torrent ) , and attacked Rome at the time when the capitol was only saved from surprise by the cackling of the sacred geese . Comparing the language of the west of Ireland with the oldest names belonging to the ancient history ...
... mountain torrent ) , and attacked Rome at the time when the capitol was only saved from surprise by the cackling of the sacred geese . Comparing the language of the west of Ireland with the oldest names belonging to the ancient history ...
Side 27
... mountains . We may assume that this district was overrun by the Roman legions at some time in the second century . The population that they found here was even then considerable , but it no doubt increased vastly during two and a half ...
... mountains . We may assume that this district was overrun by the Roman legions at some time in the second century . The population that they found here was even then considerable , but it no doubt increased vastly during two and a half ...
Side 30
... mountain , Bailey , and Ballydoyle . On the other hand , the Picts appear to have confined their ravages altogether to the other side of the Pennine , as we have no evidence that they ever entered Cumberland . The origin of the Scots is ...
... mountain , Bailey , and Ballydoyle . On the other hand , the Picts appear to have confined their ravages altogether to the other side of the Pennine , as we have no evidence that they ever entered Cumberland . The origin of the Scots is ...
Side 37
... mountains are the highest and wildest in Ireland . CUMREW , C. C. cymru , the people , or settlement , of the hills , a village on the " fell - sides . " The Welsh are so named for the same reason ; and Cimbri and Cimmerioi appear to ...
... mountains are the highest and wildest in Ireland . CUMREW , C. C. cymru , the people , or settlement , of the hills , a village on the " fell - sides . " The Welsh are so named for the same reason ; and Cimbri and Cimmerioi appear to ...
Side 38
... mountain . TORPENHOW , H. C. tor , hill , C. C. pen , hill , with a D. ending of the same meaning . Pr . torpenna , accenting on the second ; this renders impossible any such derivation as Torpen's how . Cf. Pen- how , Monmouth ...
... mountain . TORPENHOW , H. C. tor , hill , C. C. pen , hill , with a D. ending of the same meaning . Pr . torpenna , accenting on the second ; this renders impossible any such derivation as Torpen's how . Cf. Pen- how , Monmouth ...
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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