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Side 6
And it is easy to see how out of an event of this kind a story of deportation may have arisen . No portion of language has been less investigated than that of the names of persons and places , and none is so difficult .
And it is easy to see how out of an event of this kind a story of deportation may have arisen . No portion of language has been less investigated than that of the names of persons and places , and none is so difficult .
Side 25
25 on it has been founded the popular story , that it was laid as a penance on King John's subjects during the interdict , to till no enclosed fields , or lands ordinarily cultivated , for the space of a year and a day .
25 on it has been founded the popular story , that it was laid as a penance on King John's subjects during the interdict , to till no enclosed fields , or lands ordinarily cultivated , for the space of a year and a day .
Side 29
... the invasion of Ireland in the fourth century by the king of the world , on which an Iliad of wonders was raised by the romance writers of the middle ages . The story still exists independently in local tradition .
... the invasion of Ireland in the fourth century by the king of the world , on which an Iliad of wonders was raised by the romance writers of the middle ages . The story still exists independently in local tradition .
Side 41
Stories of awful massacres were sure to arise out of the state of things that existed in Britain for some centuries ; yet from these disjointed tales , and the presumed disappearance of Celtic from the map of England , was established ...
Stories of awful massacres were sure to arise out of the state of things that existed in Britain for some centuries ; yet from these disjointed tales , and the presumed disappearance of Celtic from the map of England , was established ...
Side 55
Scott tells a story corroborative of this , concerning a certain beggar woman who , one evening in a Border village , * Cf. the Russ . gorad , grad . † Names of persons ending in stone are of doubtful origin .
Scott tells a story corroborative of this , concerning a certain beggar woman who , one evening in a Border village , * Cf. the Russ . gorad , grad . † Names of persons ending in stone are of doubtful origin .
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Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and Customs |
| Forfatter | Jeremiah Sullivan |
| Udgiver | Whittaker and Company, 1857 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Det bayerske statsbibliotek |
| Digitaliseret | 8. sep 2009 |
| Længde | 171 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |