Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 4
... words of a dialect , the names of persons , places , and peoples are the only means , and the question - if science and not theory is to be regarded - becomes one of great difficulty . Such means should be used with caution , and only ...
... words of a dialect , the names of persons , places , and peoples are the only means , and the question - if science and not theory is to be regarded - becomes one of great difficulty . Such means should be used with caution , and only ...
Side 5
... word , meaning vespera , the West ; and Asia , a Greek word , signifying aurora , the East . Names of places and persons can only proceed from the dominant language of the period at which they are given . But a change in the dominant ...
... word , meaning vespera , the West ; and Asia , a Greek word , signifying aurora , the East . Names of places and persons can only proceed from the dominant language of the period at which they are given . But a change in the dominant ...
Side 8
... words , civilisation is but a chain , each link of which drags after it another . The perception of this fact has led many to the belief , that perhaps of no country have we any know- ledge of the aborigines . On the contrary , it is ...
... words , civilisation is but a chain , each link of which drags after it another . The perception of this fact has led many to the belief , that perhaps of no country have we any know- ledge of the aborigines . On the contrary , it is ...
Side 16
... words , that British and Welsh are identical . This erroneous opinion leads deeper into error . The oldest remains of the Celtic languages show clear traces of the distinction now represented by Welsh and Irish . Whatever the Gallic ...
... words , that British and Welsh are identical . This erroneous opinion leads deeper into error . The oldest remains of the Celtic languages show clear traces of the distinction now represented by Welsh and Irish . Whatever the Gallic ...
Side 17
... word kent ( pr . kant ) was changed into pen by the Cambro - Celts ; but was applied by them to hills , and never to promontories . Pembroke was previously Kentbroke ; and in the transformation of such names , we have evidence of the ...
... word kent ( pr . kant ) was changed into pen by the Cambro - Celts ; but was applied by them to hills , and never to promontories . Pembroke was previously Kentbroke ; and in the transformation of such names , we have evidence of the ...
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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