Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 8
... tribes are the Finns of Finnland and other districts , the Lapps , the Esthonians , and the Livonians . The Finns , doubtless the most widely spread in central Europe , are described by Tacitus as extremely wild and poor . They lived by ...
... tribes are the Finns of Finnland and other districts , the Lapps , the Esthonians , and the Livonians . The Finns , doubtless the most widely spread in central Europe , are described by Tacitus as extremely wild and poor . They lived by ...
Side 9
... tribes of Europe followed in the tracks of those who had gone before . It 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 ...
... tribes of Europe followed in the tracks of those who had gone before . It 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 ...
Side 12
... tribe , perhaps mixed with some of the earliest of the Indo - European stock . The people of the Bronze age stood on the same grade of culture as the Celts ; yet Prof. Worsaae cannot bring himself to suppose that they were anything but ...
... tribe , perhaps mixed with some of the earliest of the Indo - European stock . The people of the Bronze age stood on the same grade of culture as the Celts ; yet Prof. Worsaae cannot bring himself to suppose that they were anything but ...
Side 13
... tribes on the north , and with Basques , Etruscans and Illyrians on the south . At the dawn of European history , we find the Celts widely spread through the continent , and especially in possession of all the northern and western ...
... tribes on the north , and with Basques , Etruscans and Illyrians on the south . At the dawn of European history , we find the Celts widely spread through the continent , and especially in possession of all the northern and western ...
Side 14
... tribe named did migrate to the opposite shore , but , beyond a doubt , all authentic traditions of this nature had disappeared long before the visit of the Roman general to Britain . Our British ethnography has remained to the present ...
... tribe named did migrate to the opposite shore , but , beyond a doubt , all authentic traditions of this nature had disappeared long before the visit of the Roman general to Britain . Our British ethnography has remained to the present ...
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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