Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... say anything to disarm criticism . On the contrary , having no favourite theory , and having attempted to do equal justice to all the elements of his subject , he cannot regard as hostile any remarks corrective of the views he has ...
... say anything to disarm criticism . On the contrary , having no favourite theory , and having attempted to do equal justice to all the elements of his subject , he cannot regard as hostile any remarks corrective of the views he has ...
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... say that ethnography , based on this department of language , is not a case for that particular kind of blind - man's buff , mis - called etymology . The satisfactory " etymons " supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more ...
... say that ethnography , based on this department of language , is not a case for that particular kind of blind - man's buff , mis - called etymology . The satisfactory " etymons " supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more ...
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... says Prof. Worsaae ; and not the Celts , for these burned the dead , and extended over districts where no Stone graves are to be found . Thence he concludes that the Stone people are unknown to history . Nevertheless , though this ...
... says Prof. Worsaae ; and not the Celts , for these burned the dead , and extended over districts where no Stone graves are to be found . Thence he concludes that the Stone people are unknown to history . Nevertheless , though this ...
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... says , crown the summits of most of the Scottish hills : " Six flat stones are commonly found in the centre , forming a cavity in which an urn is often placed . The author is possessed of one , discovered beneath an immense cairn at ...
... says , crown the summits of most of the Scottish hills : " Six flat stones are commonly found in the centre , forming a cavity in which an urn is often placed . The author is possessed of one , discovered beneath an immense cairn at ...
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... say which language has been the borrower . The Silures and the Brigantes were probably mixed people , or Celtiberians . Lay of the Last Minstrel , Notes . † Archæological Index . Such were the early colonists of Britain ; it remains.
... say which language has been the borrower . The Silures and the Brigantes were probably mixed people , or Celtiberians . Lay of the Last Minstrel , Notes . † Archæological Index . Such were the early colonists of Britain ; it remains.
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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