Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 3
... it follows , that when such ethnographers venture philological arguments on their own responsibility , their statements are to be received with caution , if not altogether ignored . It is to philologists , then , that we are Introductory.
... it follows , that when such ethnographers venture philological arguments on their own responsibility , their statements are to be received with caution , if not altogether ignored . It is to philologists , then , that we are Introductory.
Side 14
... received it from Cæsar - the conjectures of Tacitus concerning the Silures and Caledonians notwithstanding . On historical grounds , we believe the first in- habitants of Britain to have been Celtic - using the name in rather a vague ...
... received it from Cæsar - the conjectures of Tacitus concerning the Silures and Caledonians notwithstanding . On historical grounds , we believe the first in- habitants of Britain to have been Celtic - using the name in rather a vague ...
Side 25
... received their names from this people ; and Corney , now the name of a river , is derived from the original appellative of the peninsula west of the Duddon , namely , corn , the horn . In the central districts of Cumbria , we find ...
... received their names from this people ; and Corney , now the name of a river , is derived from the original appellative of the peninsula west of the Duddon , namely , corn , the horn . In the central districts of Cumbria , we find ...
Side 32
... received this influence did not preserve its original condition ; its existence is now therefore best traced in its effects , which form many of the most striking changes of modern dialects . Traces of this organic peculiarity are ...
... received this influence did not preserve its original condition ; its existence is now therefore best traced in its effects , which form many of the most striking changes of modern dialects . Traces of this organic peculiarity are ...
Side 55
... received many additions of the kind described . It is possible , too , that many of them are Tartar . But at least one thing is certain , that the native etymology of the Norse names is quite unreliable . Some of the mixed kind have ...
... received many additions of the kind described . It is possible , too , that many of them are Tartar . But at least one thing is certain , that the native etymology of the Norse names is quite unreliable . Some of the mixed kind have ...
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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