Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 5
... supposed to be a Tyrian or Phoenician word , meaning vespera , the West ; and Asia , a Greek word , * signifying aurora , the East . Names of places and persons can only proceed from the dominant language of the period at which they are ...
... supposed to be a Tyrian or Phoenician word , meaning vespera , the West ; and Asia , a Greek word , * signifying aurora , the East . Names of places and persons can only proceed from the dominant language of the period at which they are ...
Side 6
... supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more deceptive than in those names . Whilst crude theories , imperfect research - which is generally worse than no research - and absurd conjectures , only tempt the credulity of the reader ...
... supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more deceptive than in those names . Whilst crude theories , imperfect research - which is generally worse than no research - and absurd conjectures , only tempt the credulity of the reader ...
Side 9
... supposed with much probability to have been the native soil of the Indo - European stock . From that diverging point , like swarms from a hive , went the races ( so - called ) who colonised Persia , as well as the northern parts of ...
... supposed with much probability to have been the native soil of the Indo - European stock . From that diverging point , like swarms from a hive , went the races ( so - called ) who colonised Persia , as well as the northern parts of ...
Side 16
... supposed that the earliest inhabitants of Britain were Cambro - Celtic , in other words , that British and Welsh are identical . This erroneous opinion leads deeper into error . The oldest remains of the Celtic languages show clear ...
... supposed that the earliest inhabitants of Britain were Cambro - Celtic , in other words , that British and Welsh are identical . This erroneous opinion leads deeper into error . The oldest remains of the Celtic languages show clear ...
Side 29
... supposed that the conquest of these counties was effected entirely without opposition . Two " cities , " such as those described by Cæsar , are traceable in the names of Blencogo and Blencowe , taken in conjunction with the nature of ...
... supposed that the conquest of these counties was effected entirely without opposition . Two " cities , " such as those described by Cæsar , are traceable in the names of Blencogo and Blencowe , taken in conjunction with the nature of ...
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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