Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... never scrupled , under the pressure of evidence , to alter an opinion formerly ex- pressed , though only once has he thought it necessary to make any remark thereon . But it must be added , the alterations are extremely few and ...
... never scrupled , under the pressure of evidence , to alter an opinion formerly ex- pressed , though only once has he thought it necessary to make any remark thereon . But it must be added , the alterations are extremely few and ...
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... never have done so much . Why is linguistic science able to bridge over a gulf of more than four thousand years between the Sanscrit and Irish languages , and unable to find any radical similarity between the Basque of Spain and the ...
... never have done so much . Why is linguistic science able to bridge over a gulf of more than four thousand years between the Sanscrit and Irish languages , and unable to find any radical similarity between the Basque of Spain and the ...
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... never contained ashes , is evident ; they were most probably the receptacles of the viaticum , or food for the last journey . Even in the entrances of the giants ' chambers , corpses are found , which favours the view that these were ...
... never contained ashes , is evident ; they were most probably the receptacles of the viaticum , or food for the last journey . Even in the entrances of the giants ' chambers , corpses are found , which favours the view that these were ...
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... never to promontories . Pembroke was previously Kentbroke ; and in the transformation of such names , we have evidence of the later arrival of the Cambro - Celts . The tradition still exists in Wales , especially in the north , that the ...
... never to promontories . Pembroke was previously Kentbroke ; and in the transformation of such names , we have evidence of the later arrival of the Cambro - Celts . The tradition still exists in Wales , especially in the north , that the ...
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... never gave one of their own . Celtic modes of burial are divided , by the author of the Archæo- logical Index , into Cremation , Interment at full length , and Deposit in a cist bent . Barrows of the first kind contain no vestiges of ...
... never gave one of their own . Celtic modes of burial are divided , by the author of the Archæo- logical Index , into Cremation , Interment at full length , and Deposit in a cist bent . Barrows of the first kind contain no vestiges of ...
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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