Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 18
... continued down to the conversion to Christianity . Several cairns or " barrows " are mentioned in Camden as existing in Wales , from one of which were taken five urns containing bones and ashes . Scott thus describes the cairns which ...
... continued down to the conversion to Christianity . Several cairns or " barrows " are mentioned in Camden as existing in Wales , from one of which were taken five urns containing bones and ashes . Scott thus describes the cairns which ...
Side 40
... continued unceasingly down to the close of the eleventh . The early history of these invasions is quite lost , the supposed chronicles constructed in later times being utterly fabulous in their details . The circumstances of the time ...
... continued unceasingly down to the close of the eleventh . The early history of these invasions is quite lost , the supposed chronicles constructed in later times being utterly fabulous in their details . The circumstances of the time ...
Side 43
... continued to lead an unsettled , roving life , pre- pared to take part in any kind of commotion . After the pressure of defeat , some of those marauders would find in these counties a secure place of refuge . Through Cumberland they ...
... continued to lead an unsettled , roving life , pre- pared to take part in any kind of commotion . After the pressure of defeat , some of those marauders would find in these counties a secure place of refuge . Through Cumberland they ...
Side 44
... continued to burn the corpse down to a late period . The Iron age thus intro- duced into the north , flourished in Sweden and Norway long before it made its way into Denmark . It is remarkable , too , that the Iron graves of Denmark ...
... continued to burn the corpse down to a late period . The Iron age thus intro- duced into the north , flourished in Sweden and Norway long before it made its way into Denmark . It is remarkable , too , that the Iron graves of Denmark ...
Side 54
... continued to a late period in Cumbria , and to this we owe the numerous names ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class of names appears to have come generally into use ...
... continued to a late period in Cumbria , and to this we owe the numerous names ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class of names appears to have come generally into use ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Caltram Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall 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 ground 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 mythology names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes tumulus Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae
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Side 16 - in which an urn is often placed. The author is possessed of one, discovered beneath an immense cairn at Roughlee, in Liddesdale. It is of the most barbarous construction; the middle of the substance alone having been subjected to the fire, over which, when hardened, the artist had laid an inner and outer coat of unbaked clay, etched with some very rude ornaments.
Side 31 - The system of Druidism is thought to have been formed in Britain, and from thence carried over into Gaul; and now those who wish to be more accurately versed in it, for the most part go thither
Side 128 - adds: I speke of many hundred yeres ago, But now can no man see none elves mo. In
Side 1 - die ältesten und dauerndsten Denkmäler, erzählt eine längst vergangene Nation gleichsam selbst ihre eigenen Schicksale, und es fragt sich nur, ob ihre Stimme uns noch verständlich bleibt.
Side 73 - In the early part of the (Icelandic) commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a kind of tribunal composed of twelve persons named by him, and twelve by the person whose goods had been stolen, was instituted before the door of his dwelling, and hence called a door-doom; but as this manner of proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished.'
Side 132 - the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well early in the afternoon of the second Sunday in May, and there to join in a variety of rural sports. It was the village wake,
Side 152 - a pace-egging, I hope you'll prove kind, I hope you'll prove kind with your eggs and strong beer, And we'll come no more nigh you until the next year.
Side 128 - in the uncultivated wilds of Northumberland, but even there I could only meet with a man who said that he had seen one that had seen fairies.
Side 106 - is the only other remains of fireworship in these counties. It was once an annual observance, and is still occasionally employed in the dales and some other localities (according to the import of the name, cattle-fire)
Side 15 - 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