Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 19
... Roman conquest , for linguistic reasons , a fourth must be assumed . It is not a modern opinion that Iberians were amongst the colonists of the British Isles . Tacitus believed that the Silures were of that race , concluding from their ...
... Roman conquest , for linguistic reasons , a fourth must be assumed . It is not a modern opinion that Iberians were amongst the colonists of the British Isles . Tacitus believed that the Silures were of that race , concluding from their ...
Side 20
... Roman accounts of the Teutones to show that they were not Celtic . Nevertheless , as it was from this tribe that the Germans derived the name Teutonic , its identification with the Tuads will be disputed ; whilst it is hardly credible ...
... Roman accounts of the Teutones to show that they were not Celtic . Nevertheless , as it was from this tribe that the Germans derived the name Teutonic , its identification with the Tuads will be disputed ; whilst it is hardly credible ...
Side 21
... Roman general -was that they were seeking land to settle on ; and Florus men- tions the report , that the countries abandoned by those people had been inundated by the sea . Judging from modern experience , the marshy tracts of the ...
... Roman general -was that they were seeking land to settle on ; and Florus men- tions the report , that the countries abandoned by those people had been inundated by the sea . Judging from modern experience , the marshy tracts of the ...
Side 23
... Romans , was as thickly populated as any part of Britain , in proportion to its power of furnishing the means of support . And there is scarcely a doubt , that man in his earliest migrations , as in his latest , was in search not only ...
... Romans , was as thickly populated as any part of Britain , in proportion to its power of furnishing the means of support . And there is scarcely a doubt , that man in his earliest migrations , as in his latest , was in search not only ...
Side 27
... Romans , but , as appears from Blatum Bulgium , during the Roman occupation . The word caer was quite intelligible to all the Celtic tribes , every city in Ireland might have had it placed before its name ; but the simple fact is , the ...
... Romans , but , as appears from Blatum Bulgium , during the Roman occupation . The word caer was quite intelligible to all the Celtic tribes , every city in Ireland might have had it placed before its name ; but the simple fact is , 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