Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 24
... belong to this people , if not to so early a period . Around the coast appear traces of another colony , the people of which drew the main part of their subsistence from fishing . The statement of Dio Cassius , that the Celts of Britain ...
... belong to this people , if not to so early a period . Around the coast appear traces of another colony , the people of which drew the main part of their subsistence from fishing . The statement of Dio Cassius , that the Celts of Britain ...
Side 26
... belong to the second division of the Celts . Of the presence of the Stone people , our imperfect linguistic remains afford no traces ; but we have yet to ascertain , in the proper place , what evidence of their colonisation of Cumbria ...
... belong to the second division of the Celts . Of the presence of the Stone people , our imperfect linguistic remains afford no traces ; but we have yet to ascertain , in the proper place , what evidence of their colonisation of Cumbria ...
Side 32
... belong- ing to the latter were not thickly sown , as is visible in the map of Ireland , where the words that fill up the picture , whether English or Irish , all proceed from a late period . The original Celtic names were given to whole ...
... belong- ing to the latter were not thickly sown , as is visible in the map of Ireland , where the words that fill up the picture , whether English or Irish , all proceed from a late period . The original Celtic names were given to whole ...
Side 44
... belong to their numbers . It is well known , too , that the Dane never scrupled to make himself a home as the cuckoo builds a nest , and that his only reparation was to change or disguise the name , if he were able . Penrith , in ...
... belong to their numbers . It is well known , too , that the Dane never scrupled to make himself a home as the cuckoo builds a nest , and that his only reparation was to change or disguise the name , if he were able . Penrith , in ...
Side 46
... belong to the present day , and nearly all the rest to the period immediately preceding . Substantive names have already become endings ; and through this arises a facility of dealing with them , they may be classed by their ...
... belong to the present day , and nearly all the rest to the period immediately preceding . Substantive names have already become endings ; and through this arises a facility of dealing with them , they may be classed by their ...
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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