Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 6-10 af 31
Side 38
... late addition , and it is not more singular to have Ull survive as the name of a lake , than Penrith as the name of a town . VERODA ( H. C. uidhe , a road , ruadh , red ) , the great Roman road that passed north through the forest ...
... late addition , and it is not more singular to have Ull survive as the name of a lake , than Penrith as the name of a town . VERODA ( H. C. uidhe , a road , ruadh , red ) , the great Roman road that passed north through the forest ...
Side 44
... late period . The Iron age thus intro- duced into the north , flourished in Sweden and Norway long before it made its way into Denmark . It is remarkable , too , that the Iron graves of Denmark contain exclusively unburnt corpses . In ...
... late period . The Iron age thus intro- duced into the north , flourished in Sweden and Norway long before it made its way into Denmark . It is remarkable , too , that the Iron graves of Denmark contain exclusively unburnt corpses . In ...
Side 48
... late . It is generally found as a repetition : Brownberg Hill , Castle Law Hill ( A. S. beorg , a hill , hlaw , a hill ) , etc. More , a moor . Westmorland was probably the original name of the Morland district . Melmerby ( D. mellem ...
... late . It is generally found as a repetition : Brownberg Hill , Castle Law Hill ( A. S. beorg , a hill , hlaw , a hill ) , etc. More , a moor . Westmorland was probably the original name of the Morland district . Melmerby ( D. mellem ...
Side 53
... late years , fast removing all traces and relics of the olden time . Various essays have been made to find a resemblance between the people of Cumbria and the Scandinavians of the continent , but especially of Norway , the latter being ...
... late years , fast removing all traces and relics of the olden time . Various essays have been made to find a resemblance between the people of Cumbria and the Scandinavians of the continent , but especially of Norway , the latter being ...
Side 54
... late period in Cumbria , and to this we owe the numerous names ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class of ñames appears to have come generally into use with the final ...
... late period in Cumbria , and to this we owe the numerous names ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class of ñames appears to have come generally into use with the final ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient & Modern: The People, Dialect ... Jeremiah Sullivan Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2020 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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