Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 27
... doubt increased vastly during two and a half centuries of steady government . The forts and camps erected by the Romans afford , by their position , the most important evidence . As the centre of a colony could rarely have been a proper ...
... doubt increased vastly during two and a half centuries of steady government . The forts and camps erected by the Romans afford , by their position , the most important evidence . As the centre of a colony could rarely have been a proper ...
Side 40
... doubt that immediately on the decline of Imperial power in the north , this island would form one of the most inviting places of resort for those sea - side people whose trade was plunder . It is the opinion of Worsaae , * that , during ...
... doubt that immediately on the decline of Imperial power in the north , this island would form one of the most inviting places of resort for those sea - side people whose trade was plunder . It is the opinion of Worsaae , * that , during ...
Side 45
... doubt that to the Danes we owe our system of by - laws , Scotch bir - laws ( D. by , byr , a town ) , that is , laws made for a town , perhaps the most valuable part of our present mode of government . • Penrith has thus been converted ...
... doubt that to the Danes we owe our system of by - laws , Scotch bir - laws ( D. by , byr , a town ) , that is , laws made for a town , perhaps the most valuable part of our present mode of government . • Penrith has thus been converted ...
Side 47
... doubt , that Workington is the correct form of Worthington . SAXON TERMINATIONS . Barrow , berg ( A. S. beorg , a hill , a tumulus , G. berg , a hill ) a burial - place . Bargheist , the ghost that haunts the barrow . Eq . the D. höi ...
... doubt , that Workington is the correct form of Worthington . SAXON TERMINATIONS . Barrow , berg ( A. S. beorg , a hill , a tumulus , G. berg , a hill ) a burial - place . Bargheist , the ghost that haunts the barrow . Eq . the D. höi ...
Side 52
... doubt , out- numbered the Celtic , as the Danes and Norwegians exceeded in number the Angles and Saxons . And hence arose the preponder- ance of the Danish dialect . It is probable the Danes originally took exclusive possession of ...
... doubt , out- numbered the Celtic , as the Danes and Norwegians exceeded in number the Angles and Saxons . And hence arose the preponder- ance of the Danish dialect . It is probable the Danes originally took exclusive possession of ...
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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