Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 20
... existence has been doubted , yet some of the same people colonised a part of Scotland , and left their name to the river Tweed . The position on the coast of Britain , and the name in Irish history , identify them as emigrants from ...
... existence has been doubted , yet some of the same people colonised a part of Scotland , and left their name to the river Tweed . The position on the coast of Britain , and the name in Irish history , identify them as emigrants from ...
Side 32
... existence is now therefore best traced in its effects , which form many of the most striking changes of modern dialects . Traces of this organic peculiarity are strong and general in Russian , partial in Danish and Latin , scarcely to ...
... existence is now therefore best traced in its effects , which form many of the most striking changes of modern dialects . Traces of this organic peculiarity are strong and general in Russian , partial in Danish and Latin , scarcely to ...
Side 33
... existence even now would come to an end . To this class belongs the silly mistake of supposing the British balefires to have been the " fires of Baal , " which has solely arisen from the name having become so familiar through the Bible ...
... existence even now would come to an end . To this class belongs the silly mistake of supposing the British balefires to have been the " fires of Baal , " which has solely arisen from the name having become so familiar through the Bible ...
Side 61
... existence , the word being in English onthink , and the phrase " to think on " still current in the dialect . Bauta stones are invariably found in connexion with graves . The traditions connected with the names of places and persons ...
... existence , the word being in English onthink , and the phrase " to think on " still current in the dialect . Bauta stones are invariably found in connexion with graves . The traditions connected with the names of places and persons ...
Side 71
... existence . Taken absolutely , the phoneticism of language is but an imperfect representation of the idea , and written language still more im- perfectly represents the sounds it is intended to transfer to our organs . Possibly in the ...
... existence . Taken absolutely , the phoneticism of language is but an imperfect representation of the idea , and written language still more im- perfectly represents the sounds it is intended to transfer to our organs . Possibly in the ...
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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