Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 21
... island , whence the name Alba travelled southwards with the people . Whatever may have been the amount of Tatár and Iberian mixture , all distinctions finally merged into that of the two Celtic divisions . Hiberno - Celtic and Cambro ...
... island , whence the name Alba travelled southwards with the people . Whatever may have been the amount of Tatár and Iberian mixture , all distinctions finally merged into that of the two Celtic divisions . Hiberno - Celtic and Cambro ...
Side 29
... island from the native writers . Cæsar , who could not acknowledge his defeat at Gergovia , or the streights to which he was driven in Britain , Domitian , who purchased slaves to make a triumph , were not the men to publish reverses ...
... island from the native writers . Cæsar , who could not acknowledge his defeat at Gergovia , or the streights to which he was driven in Britain , Domitian , who purchased slaves to make a triumph , were not the men to publish reverses ...
Side 30
... island , Connaught ap- parently excepted , and made so deep an impression on their new country , as to give to it the name that it bore for some centuries , namely , Scotia . In short they were to Ireland what the Angles , at a later ...
... island , Connaught ap- parently excepted , and made so deep an impression on their new country , as to give to it the name that it bore for some centuries , namely , Scotia . In short they were to Ireland what the Angles , at a later ...
Side 35
... island of the judges , the oldest Cam- bricised form of which is Inis pryddain , as appears in the Welsh triads . Breathnach in the Irish language means Welshman , and breithemh , a judge , is pronounced brehon . The Vergobret of the ...
... island of the judges , the oldest Cam- bricised form of which is Inis pryddain , as appears in the Welsh triads . Breathnach in the Irish language means Welshman , and breithemh , a judge , is pronounced brehon . The Vergobret of the ...
Side 40
... 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 the Roman dominion , a brisk trade was carried on between Denmark and the ...
... 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 the Roman dominion , a brisk trade was carried on between Denmark and 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