Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 4
... origin , whilst peoples separated only by a stream have 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 ...
... origin , whilst peoples separated only by a stream have 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 ...
Side 28
... origin the name may have had , it was adopted by the Romans ; thus we find that one of the forts was called Olenacum , that is , " having elbows or corners . " As for the rest , the conjectures of antiquaries concerning the sites are ...
... origin the name may have had , it was adopted by the Romans ; thus we find that one of the forts was called Olenacum , that is , " having elbows or corners . " As for the rest , the conjectures of antiquaries concerning the sites are ...
Side 30
... origin of the Scots is involved in some obscurity , but various traditions confirm a belief that they came into Ireland from Spain . They landed in the south and south - east , and , some time during the Roman occupation of Britain ...
... origin of the Scots is involved in some obscurity , but various traditions confirm a belief that they came into Ireland from Spain . They landed in the south and south - east , and , some time during the Roman occupation of Britain ...
Side 34
... origin of Celtic names . The oldest words corresponding to the modern " town , " evidently indicate the state of the plains , when the first immigrants were entering Europe . They are all derivatives or transfers from the names of hills ...
... origin of Celtic names . The oldest words corresponding to the modern " town , " evidently indicate the state of the plains , when the first immigrants were entering Europe . They are all derivatives or transfers from the names of hills ...
Side 36
... origin . The Ger . burg only accounts for borough ( in Borrowbridge , etc. ) The Brovonacæ and Brovacum of Ant . It . CALEDONIA ( C. Gaill y dun , the Gauls of the hills ) , a Lat . derivative for the name of the country . Cf. Donegal ...
... origin . The Ger . burg only accounts for borough ( in Borrowbridge , etc. ) The Brovonacæ and Brovacum of Ant . It . CALEDONIA ( C. Gaill y dun , the Gauls of the hills ) , a Lat . derivative for the name of the country . Cf. Donegal ...
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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