Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 89
... living apartment is the house . The writer once had occa- sion to call at the house of a man whom he wanted to see , and was informed that he hadn't landed , that is to say , reached home ; and when he did " land , " the cause of delay ...
... living apartment is the house . The writer once had occa- sion to call at the house of a man whom he wanted to see , and was informed that he hadn't landed , that is to say , reached home ; and when he did " land , " the cause of delay ...
Side 91
... living . There is no doubt that with a little more extension of education , the dialect will become one of the things of the past . Yet a considerable portion of the people will continue for some time , with respect to the dialect ...
... living . There is no doubt that with a little more extension of education , the dialect will become one of the things of the past . Yet a considerable portion of the people will continue for some time , with respect to the dialect ...
Side 123
... living on an island in Derwentwater . See the notes to Scott's Marmion for a description of St. Rule's cave at St. Andrews , a place precisely similar to the caves of the Eamont . Nor are these situations more strange than that of St ...
... living on an island in Derwentwater . See the notes to Scott's Marmion for a description of St. Rule's cave at St. Andrews , a place precisely similar to the caves of the Eamont . Nor are these situations more strange than that of St ...
Side 127
... living creature that passed over the bridge , but was cleverly cheated by the other contracting party , an old woman , who contrived to substitute a dog . At Stenkrith bridge , near Kirkby Stephen , in a cleft of the rock , a ...
... living creature that passed over the bridge , but was cleverly cheated by the other contracting party , an old woman , who contrived to substitute a dog . At Stenkrith bridge , near Kirkby Stephen , in a cleft of the rock , a ...
Side 136
... living lord that owned the placed before or after . ' At what date it commenced its gloomy walks we cannot learn , all the old records being silent upon the subject ; but tradition says , The Luck of Edenhall is likewise made mention of ...
... living lord that owned the placed before or after . ' At what date it commenced its gloomy walks we cannot learn , all the old records being silent upon the subject ; but tradition says , The Luck of Edenhall is likewise made mention 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 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