Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 54
... amongst the Scandinavians and Celts , must have continued to a late period in Cumbria , and to this we owe the numerous names ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class ...
... amongst the Scandinavians and Celts , must have continued to a late period in Cumbria , and to this we owe the numerous names ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class ...
Side 57
... his wits -- and telling a feigned story to excite pity , or pattering , was once simply the repeating of the Pater , the only return required for alms at a certain period . H CHAPTER IX . · ANTIQUITIES AND TRADITIONS . AMONGST the.
... his wits -- and telling a feigned story to excite pity , or pattering , was once simply the repeating of the Pater , the only return required for alms at a certain period . H CHAPTER IX . · ANTIQUITIES AND TRADITIONS . AMONGST the.
Side 58
... AMONGST the ancient monuments of Britain , the well - known remains called Druidical circles hold a foremost place , though their use , and the people by whom they were erected , are questions that must still remain matters of dispute ...
... AMONGST the ancient monuments of Britain , the well - known remains called Druidical circles hold a foremost place , though their use , and the people by whom they were erected , are questions that must still remain matters of dispute ...
Side 61
... stones are invariably found in connexion with graves . The traditions connected with the names of places and persons , are equally unreliable with those belonging to the graves . Amongst the stories of this kind , of which every country.
... stones are invariably found in connexion with graves . The traditions connected with the names of places and persons , are equally unreliable with those belonging to the graves . Amongst the stories of this kind , of which every country.
Side 82
... amongst other places , to the neighbourhood of Hesket . WEALD ( G. wald , a forest , from obs . val , a hill , cf. G. wallen , to undulate ) , anciently forest land , now more generally land cleared of forest . A tract of land on the ...
... amongst other places , to the neighbourhood of Hesket . WEALD ( G. wald , a forest , from obs . val , a hill , cf. G. wallen , to undulate ) , anciently forest land , now more generally land cleared of forest . A tract of land on 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 Cultram Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton custom 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 superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae