Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 15
... giant's chamber is described as having been discovered at New Grange , near Drogheda . The Camden's Britannia . + Archæological Index , by J. Y. Ackerman , 1847 . 66 grottoes and covered alleys " of the work referred.
... giant's chamber is described as having been discovered at New Grange , near Drogheda . The Camden's Britannia . + Archæological Index , by J. Y. Ackerman , 1847 . 66 grottoes and covered alleys " of the work referred.
Side 21
... giants ' chambers . The first settlers proceeded from the north of Denmark , about five centuries before the Christian era , being driven out by the unhealthiness of the country , and landed in the mountainous part of the island ...
... giants ' chambers . The first settlers proceeded from the north of Denmark , about five centuries before the Christian era , being driven out by the unhealthiness of the country , and landed in the mountainous part of the island ...
Side 41
... giant's grave . This name , doubtless , rests on a tradition that a party of fugitives had reached Ireland . Brecknock , in Wales , I believe to be of British foundation - Bret cnock , the Britons ' hill . Cornwall , and Bretagne ...
... giant's grave . This name , doubtless , rests on a tradition that a party of fugitives had reached Ireland . Brecknock , in Wales , I believe to be of British foundation - Bret cnock , the Britons ' hill . Cornwall , and Bretagne ...
Side 117
... were wiser than councils or synods ; for being most in contact with the ancient rites , they best saw the necessity of tolerating what they were powerless to combat . CHAPTER III . GIANTS . EASTERN nations agree in representing.
... were wiser than councils or synods ; for being most in contact with the ancient rites , they best saw the necessity of tolerating what they were powerless to combat . CHAPTER III . GIANTS . EASTERN nations agree in representing.
Side 118
... . But he is more human- like than the giant ; and in common with all the beings of his class , at one time inclines to evil , at another to good . SCANDINAVIAN GIANTS . 119 Several explanations have been offered of Giants.
... . But he is more human- like than the giant ; and in common with all the beings of his class , at one time inclines to evil , at another to good . SCANDINAVIAN GIANTS . 119 Several explanations have been offered of Giants.
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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