Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 61
... neighbourhood ( still remaining ) is in all probability Danish . But there is no doubt an examination of the numerous tumuli yet scattered over the country , would extend and correct our knowledge on this interesting subject . The ...
... neighbourhood ( still remaining ) is in all probability Danish . But there is no doubt an examination of the numerous tumuli yet scattered over the country , would extend and correct our knowledge on this interesting subject . The ...
Side 82
... neighbourhood of Hesket . WEALD ( G. wald , a forest , from obs . val , a hill , cf. G. wallen , to undulate ) , anciently forest land , now more generally land cleared of forest . A tract of land on the east border of Westmorland ...
... neighbourhood of Hesket . WEALD ( G. wald , a forest , from obs . val , a hill , cf. G. wallen , to undulate ) , anciently forest land , now more generally land cleared of forest . A tract of land on the east border of Westmorland ...
Side 100
... neighbourhood of Penrith this is pronounced laal ; the dales shorten the latter somewhat , as if it were lal ; the Borrowdale Letter ( Eamont Bridge ) has got lile , which we also find in the south of Westmorland ; in Lancaster it is ...
... neighbourhood of Penrith this is pronounced laal ; the dales shorten the latter somewhat , as if it were lal ; the Borrowdale Letter ( Eamont Bridge ) has got lile , which we also find in the south of Westmorland ; in Lancaster it is ...
Side 101
... neighbourhood , and the birthplace of the author is as it were the key to the peculiarities of his orthography . Cumberland and Westmorland have been fortunate beyond any other district in England , in the quality and extent of their ...
... neighbourhood , and the birthplace of the author is as it were the key to the peculiarities of his orthography . Cumberland and Westmorland have been fortunate beyond any other district in England , in the quality and extent of their ...
Side 115
... neighbourhood to collect donations for the purchase of faggots , the ringleader , or Arch - druid , carrying in his hand the skull of a horse or other animal as a symbol of his priestly functions . With the larger bone - fires ...
... neighbourhood to collect donations for the purchase of faggots , the ringleader , or Arch - druid , carrying in his hand the skull of a horse or other animal as a symbol of his priestly functions . With the larger bone - fires ...
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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