Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 39
... origin of Watling Street , the Roman road from London to Chester , which was transferred in English times to the Milky Way . Grimm wonders who were the Watlings , the proprietors of two such famous streets ! The reader will see that ...
... origin of Watling Street , the Roman road from London to Chester , which was transferred in English times to the Milky Way . Grimm wonders who were the Watlings , the proprietors of two such famous streets ! The reader will see that ...
Side 46
... origin of the place , must be especially worthless to ethnographers . One of the latest and most ordinary mistakes that second colonists make with regard to older names , is that of personifica- tion . If the name is not otherwise to be ...
... origin of the place , must be especially worthless to ethnographers . One of the latest and most ordinary mistakes that second colonists make with regard to older names , is that of personifica- tion . If the name is not otherwise to be ...
Side 50
... origin . Burton and Bruton are probably from brough . Frith ( N. fiördhr , an arm of the sea ) , an estuary . The Angle use of the word seems to be that of a glen , with generally a river passing through it : Holmefirth , Chapel in the ...
... origin . Burton and Bruton are probably from brough . Frith ( N. fiördhr , an arm of the sea ) , an estuary . The Angle use of the word seems to be that of a glen , with generally a river passing through it : Holmefirth , Chapel in the ...
Side 55
... origin , we are driven to the conclusion , that some Christian Northman so signalised himself in Ireland that his name became a synonyme for a hero , and that from him are descended the O'Neills of Ireland , which genitive passing back ...
... origin , we are driven to the conclusion , that some Christian Northman so signalised himself in Ireland that his name became a synonyme for a hero , and that from him are descended the O'Neills of Ireland , which genitive passing back ...
Side 56
... origin of the potter must probably be identified with that of vagrants in England generally . As bondage declined , vagrancy flourished , potterism apparently being the peculiar form taken by it in the north . But even the name is ...
... origin of the potter must probably be identified with that of vagrants in England generally . As bondage declined , vagrancy flourished , potterism apparently being the peculiar form taken by it in the north . But even the name is ...
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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