Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 14
... islands , if not numerous , at least very widely spread . It must be remembered that we have no systematic account of these antiquities in Britain , and that before any record of them was made , numbers may have been destroyed . The ...
... islands , if not numerous , at least very widely spread . It must be remembered that we have no systematic account of these antiquities in Britain , and that before any record of them was made , numbers may have been destroyed . The ...
Side 16
... islands in company with the Celts , after having obtained metal weapons , and having learned the construction of some ... island . The river that bounded their district , the Shannon ( Senus ) , was therefore named by their successors on ...
... islands in company with the Celts , after having obtained metal weapons , and having learned the construction of some ... island . The river that bounded their district , the Shannon ( Senus ) , was therefore named by their successors on ...
Side 17
... islands were the same people . And in fact all the seafaring tribes of the west and north of Europe , for a considerable period , were Hiberno - Celts . The five great headlands of Britain , on which are situated the modern counties of ...
... islands were the same people . And in fact all the seafaring tribes of the west and north of Europe , for a considerable period , were Hiberno - Celts . The five great headlands of Britain , on which are situated the modern counties of ...
Side 19
... islands , but especially in Britain . The name of the Iceni is not to be explained from Celtic , the original word being Cent ; but in Iberian ( Basque ) the i is a frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning ...
... islands , but especially in Britain . The name of the Iceni is not to be explained from Celtic , the original word being Cent ; but in Iberian ( Basque ) the i is a frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning ...
Side 20
... island , and the people who con- ferred it , belonged to the original settlers . It is difficult to fix anything near the time at which the first immigration took place . For geognostic reasons , says Worsaae , we may conclude that the ...
... island , and the people who con- ferred it , belonged to the original settlers . It is difficult to fix anything near the time at which the first immigration took place . For geognostic reasons , says Worsaae , we may conclude that 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