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 Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton 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 SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae