Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 8
... seem to have come in two streams , one along the large rivers and inland seas of the north , the other by the coasts of the Mediterranean . At the present day , we find on the southern stream remnants of three races that cannot be ...
... seem to have come in two streams , one along the large rivers and inland seas of the north , the other by the coasts of the Mediterranean . At the present day , we find on the southern stream remnants of three races that cannot be ...
Side 9
... seems to be the destiny of one people to pioneer and make roads for another . Thus we find the Celts in contact with the Iberians , the Latins with the Etruscans . Whence came the earlier races is a question involved in the deepest ...
... seems to be the destiny of one people to pioneer and make roads for another . Thus we find the Celts in contact with the Iberians , the Latins with the Etruscans . Whence came the earlier races is a question involved in the deepest ...
Side 11
... seem to have been developed out of those of the former period . The transition is sudden , and tells of the coming in of a new people . Instead of the simple , uniform implements of stone , we discover metal weapons , utensils and ...
... seem to have been developed out of those of the former period . The transition is sudden , and tells of the coming in of a new people . Instead of the simple , uniform implements of stone , we discover metal weapons , utensils and ...
Side 15
... seems more than twenty oxen can draw . It is supported by three large rude pillars about eight feet high ; but there are also five others which are of no use at present , as not being high enough to bear any weight of the top stone ...
... seems more than twenty oxen can draw . It is supported by three large rude pillars about eight feet high ; but there are also five others which are of no use at present , as not being high enough to bear any weight of the top stone ...
Side 17
... seem to have migrated northwards from South Wales . On the other hand , the Cambro- Celtic term for capes was corn , a horn , as in Cornwall . Amongst the latest of the Hiberno - Celtic colonists , prior to the * Owen's Welsh Dictionary ...
... seem to have migrated northwards from South Wales . On the other hand , the Cambro- Celtic term for capes was corn , a horn , as in Cornwall . Amongst the latest of the Hiberno - Celtic colonists , prior to the * Owen's Welsh Dictionary ...
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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