Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 55
... continued long unbroken , especially on the Border . Scott tells a story corroborative of this , concerning a certain beggar woman who , one evening in a Border village , Cf. the Russ . gorad , grad . Names of persons ending in stone ...
... continued long unbroken , especially on the Border . Scott tells a story corroborative of this , concerning a certain beggar woman who , one evening in a Border village , Cf. the Russ . gorad , grad . Names of persons ending in stone ...
Side 111
... continued even at Rome down to the time of the Empire- were most probably practised by some of the Celtic tribes , to what extent they prevailed , or under what conditions they were used , are points on which we are almost in the dark ...
... continued even at Rome down to the time of the Empire- were most probably practised by some of the Celtic tribes , to what extent they prevailed , or under what conditions they were used , are points on which we are almost in the dark ...
Side 112
... continued it under the name of the Baaltine or Beltain , ‡ a compound formed * Aodh is the orthography into which E. Hugh is put in Irish ; the pronun- ciation of both is therefore nearly identical . It appears to be the Celtic form of ...
... continued it under the name of the Baaltine or Beltain , ‡ a compound formed * Aodh is the orthography into which E. Hugh is put in Irish ; the pronun- ciation of both is therefore nearly identical . It appears to be the Celtic form of ...
Side 114
... continued according to the old style . Lammas , or the first of August , has left fewer traces , but there is no doubt it was once celebrated with fireworship ; whilst the observance of the first of November appears to have been more ...
... continued according to the old style . Lammas , or the first of August , has left fewer traces , but there is no doubt it was once celebrated with fireworship ; whilst the observance of the first of November appears to have been more ...
Side 117
... continued until their latest names lost all special significance . Bale - fire became the general term for a signal - fire , and bone - fire is now the name of any fire made at a public rejoicing . Scott ( Lay of the Last Minstrel ) has ...
... continued until their latest names lost all special significance . Bale - fire became the general term for a signal - fire , and bone - fire is now the name of any fire made at a public rejoicing . Scott ( Lay of the Last Minstrel ) has ...
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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