Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 4
... 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 the few archaic words of a ...
... 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 the few archaic words of a ...
Side 18
... taken five urns containing bones and ashes . Scott thus describes the cairns which , he says , crown the summits of most of the Scottish hills : " Six flat stones are commonly found in the centre , forming a cavity in which an urn is ...
... taken five urns containing bones and ashes . Scott thus describes the cairns which , he says , crown the summits of most of the Scottish hills : " Six flat stones are commonly found in the centre , forming a cavity in which an urn is ...
Side 29
... taken in conjunction with the nature of the ground ; and if any stand were made , it was especially in these places . These cities were not intended for permanent residences , the habits of the Celts being opposed to such localities ...
... taken in conjunction with the nature of the ground ; and if any stand were made , it was especially in these places . These cities were not intended for permanent residences , the habits of the Celts being opposed to such localities ...
Side 42
... taken advantage of by the invaders , but especially by the Angles . They entered Cumbria by the road that accompanied the Wall , their first settlement being Walton . From this place they crossed the river to Brampton , and having ...
... taken advantage of by the invaders , but especially by the Angles . They entered Cumbria by the road that accompanied the Wall , their first settlement being Walton . From this place they crossed the river to Brampton , and having ...
Side 54
... taken from trades , occupations , colours , and all sorts of peculiarities . The Celtic and Scandinavian names have been enriched by a very considerable interchange . An example or two must suffice to show the manner in which this has taken ...
... taken from trades , occupations , colours , and all sorts of peculiarities . The Celtic and Scandinavian names have been enriched by a very considerable interchange . An example or two must suffice to show the manner in which this has taken ...
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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