Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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... GR142 .C959 THIS LITTLE VOLUME- A TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM FOR HIS LOVE OF LANGUAGES AND OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS HIGH LINGUISTIC ATTAINMENTS— IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE following chapters are , with some diffidence.
... GR142 .C959 THIS LITTLE VOLUME- A TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM FOR HIS LOVE OF LANGUAGES AND OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS HIGH LINGUISTIC ATTAINMENTS— IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE following chapters are , with some diffidence.
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... languages . But it follows , that when such ethnographers venture philological arguments on their own responsibility , their statements are to be received with caution , if not altogether ignored . It is to philologists , then , that we ...
... languages . But it follows , that when such ethnographers venture philological arguments on their own responsibility , their statements are to be received with caution , if not altogether ignored . It is to philologists , then , that we ...
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... language , every dialect may be taken to represent a people , and when languages of that period are attainable , philology possesses evidence sufficient for ethno- graphic purposes . But when the language is extinct , or exists only in ...
... language , every dialect may be taken to represent a people , and when languages of that period are attainable , philology possesses evidence sufficient for ethno- graphic purposes . But when the language is extinct , or exists only in ...
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... language is very far from proving a change of people . How absurd it would be to assert that William Williams ... language - they speak a Latin dialect ! Yet something equivalent to this is done daily concerning names and languages a ...
... language is very far from proving a change of people . How absurd it would be to assert that William Williams ... language - they speak a Latin dialect ! Yet something equivalent to this is done daily concerning names and languages a ...
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... 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 occupied themselves with such subjects , but with a higher ...
... 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 occupied themselves with such subjects , but with a higher ...
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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