Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 14
... known as " cromlechs ; " they are so called in Ireland and Wales , and the name is current in the archæology of England . 1 STONE GRAVES OF BRITAIN . 15 The description of a 99 The first Colonisation of the British Isles.
... known as " cromlechs ; " they are so called in Ireland and Wales , and the name is current in the archæology of England . 1 STONE GRAVES OF BRITAIN . 15 The description of a 99 The first Colonisation of the British Isles.
Side 18
... known as the Picts . The latter tribe may have given the name to the Isle of Wight ( Vectis ) , the original form being perhaps Quict ; but at least the word is not the Latin pictus , as the Romans invariably adopted the foreign name ...
... known as the Picts . The latter tribe may have given the name to the Isle of Wight ( Vectis ) , the original form being perhaps Quict ; but at least the word is not the Latin pictus , as the Romans invariably adopted the foreign name ...
Side 24
... known as Long Meg and her Daughters . In the same neighbourhood we find Great Dun Fell , Crowdundle and Knock Pike , which belong to this people , if not to so early a period . Around the coast appear traces of another colony , the ...
... known as Long Meg and her Daughters . In the same neighbourhood we find Great Dun Fell , Crowdundle and Knock Pike , which belong to this people , if not to so early a period . Around the coast appear traces of another colony , the ...
Side 28
... known as Green Castle , Whelp Castle , and Castle Steads ) ; and at Orton , and Watercrook in Westmorland . The names of places furnish us with three Hincaster , Muncaster , and Casterton . These forts and camps were all connected by ...
... known as Green Castle , Whelp Castle , and Castle Steads ) ; and at Orton , and Watercrook in Westmorland . The names of places furnish us with three Hincaster , Muncaster , and Casterton . These forts and camps were all connected by ...
Side 30
... known Scots of school histories , who , having united their forces with the Picts , " began to look upon Britain as their own . " Three names at least can be referred with certainty to this tribe , Skiddaw , the Scots ' mountain ...
... known Scots of school histories , who , having united their forces with the Picts , " began to look upon Britain as their own . " Three names at least can be referred with certainty to this tribe , Skiddaw , the Scots ' mountain ...
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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