Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 50
... passing through it : Holmefirth , Chapel in the Frith . Gill ( N. gil , a mountain chasm ) , a glen . Haugh , how ( N. haugr ) , a hill or burial - mound . Bruckenhow , the hill at the bridge . Holme ( N. holmi ) , a little island , as ...
... passing through it : Holmefirth , Chapel in the Frith . Gill ( N. gil , a mountain chasm ) , a glen . Haugh , how ( N. haugr ) , a hill or burial - mound . Bruckenhow , the hill at the bridge . Holme ( N. holmi ) , a little island , as ...
Side 55
... passing back into Scandinavia , made out the equivalent Nelson . Again , the Cumbrian name so long spelt Grame , is of course correctly Graham , for in the same way Brougham is pronounced very plainly broom . Graham is a local name in ...
... passing back into Scandinavia , made out the equivalent Nelson . Again , the Cumbrian name so long spelt Grame , is of course correctly Graham , for in the same way Brougham is pronounced very plainly broom . Graham is a local name in ...
Side 93
... passed through the Norse stage , but that it did so in England . We have a word of this kind amonst the names of places , namely , Knock , for which there is C. cnoc , or N. hnukr ; but the same reasoning applies , and Knock must be ...
... passed through the Norse stage , but that it did so in England . We have a word of this kind amonst the names of places , namely , Knock , for which there is C. cnoc , or N. hnukr ; but the same reasoning applies , and Knock must be ...
Side 103
... passing away , and the next generation , should it ever find time to leave the dull tracks of prose , will have to woo the muse in another language . * It is only right to say that Mr. Rayson , the last of the Cumbrian bards , labours ...
... passing away , and the next generation , should it ever find time to leave the dull tracks of prose , will have to woo the muse in another language . * It is only right to say that Mr. Rayson , the last of the Cumbrian bards , labours ...
Side 117
... passed through the fire , subjected an ailing wife to the influence of the same potent charm . At various times attempts were made to suppress those remains of fireworship . The sixth council of Constantinople , 680 , inter- dicted ...
... passed through the fire , subjected an ailing wife to the influence of the same potent charm . At various times attempts were made to suppress those remains of fireworship . The sixth council of Constantinople , 680 , inter- dicted ...
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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