Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... kind a story of deportation may have arisen . No portion of language has been less investigated than that of the names of persons and places , and none is so difficult . With proper respect for the efforts of persons who have already ...
... kind a story of deportation may have arisen . No portion of language has been less investigated than that of the names of persons and places , and none is so difficult . With proper respect for the efforts of persons who have already ...
Side 10
... kind of antiquities found therein . The latest of these periods , the Iron age , does not belong to this part of our subject , but some mention shall be made of it in a subsequent chapter . During the first or Stone age , the grave was ...
... kind of antiquities found therein . The latest of these periods , the Iron age , does not belong to this part of our subject , but some mention shall be made of it in a subsequent chapter . During the first or Stone age , the grave was ...
Side 11
... kind of axe called the celt , knives very nearly resembling those of the present day , swords , battle - axes , daggers , lance - heads , shields , and the war - trumpet called the lur , sometimes in such good preservation that it may ...
... kind of axe called the celt , knives very nearly resembling those of the present day , swords , battle - axes , daggers , lance - heads , shields , and the war - trumpet called the lur , sometimes in such good preservation that it may ...
Side 15
... kind . " * Several monuments of this description are mentioned in the same work . St. Iltut's hermitage in Brecknockshire , is constructed of three large stones fixed in the ground , with a fourth for a cover , and forms an " oblong hut ...
... kind . " * Several monuments of this description are mentioned in the same work . St. Iltut's hermitage in Brecknockshire , is constructed of three large stones fixed in the ground , with a fourth for a cover , and forms an " oblong hut ...
Side 16
... kind of boat . Moreover , no trace of any language older than Celtic has been found . in Britain , the peculiar sepulchres do not appear in one district only , but are thinly scattered through the islands , and modern Irish , therefore ...
... kind of boat . Moreover , no trace of any language older than Celtic has been found . in Britain , the peculiar sepulchres do not appear in one district only , but are thinly scattered through the islands , and modern Irish , therefore ...
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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