Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 41
... observed , that all those districts had then as dense a population as they could support , and that emigrant Britons might as well have re- mained to be massacred , as flee for refuge ( according to the old story ) to the mountains ...
... observed , that all those districts had then as dense a population as they could support , and that emigrant Britons might as well have re- mained to be massacred , as flee for refuge ( according to the old story ) to the mountains ...
Side 44
... observed , that the fact of the Angles having given their name to the country and to the language , is quite in accordance with this characteristic . But as neither Angles nor Saxons tended very much to fill these counties , it remained ...
... observed , that the fact of the Angles having given their name to the country and to the language , is quite in accordance with this characteristic . But as neither Angles nor Saxons tended very much to fill these counties , it remained ...
Side 53
... * * * The Chevalier Bunsen has assured me , that he has often looked in vain . * Kohl , the German traveller , observed a great similarity between the Welsh and Tyrolese . for the auburn or golden locks , and the light.
... * * * The Chevalier Bunsen has assured me , that he has often looked in vain . * Kohl , the German traveller , observed a great similarity between the Welsh and Tyrolese . for the auburn or golden locks , and the light.
Side 60
... observed before , burned the body , until at or about the time of their conversion to Christianity . Tumuli or barrows still remain in great numbers . As far as any records have been kept of those removed , nearly all must be claimed ...
... observed before , burned the body , until at or about the time of their conversion to Christianity . Tumuli or barrows still remain in great numbers . As far as any records have been kept of those removed , nearly all must be claimed ...
Side 68
... observed that language is not the product of a simple , but of a compound power . The conse- quence of this is , that in the formation of dialects , it must undergo two changes , one affecting the vocabulary , the other the phonetic ...
... observed that language is not the product of a simple , but of a compound power . The conse- quence of this is , that in the formation of dialects , it must undergo two changes , one affecting the vocabulary , the other the phonetic ...
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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