Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 58
... principal monument of the class which we must continue to call simply by the name of Circles , is that known as Long Meg and her Daughters . Nearest to this in size and appearance , as far as they have been described , or need be ...
... principal monument of the class which we must continue to call simply by the name of Circles , is that known as Long Meg and her Daughters . Nearest to this in size and appearance , as far as they have been described , or need be ...
Side 72
... principal vowels which no language is without ; the other two , e ( a ) , o are intermediate sounds that have developed themselves in some languages within the reach of history . The Cumbrian dialect shows the broad and narrow ...
... principal vowels which no language is without ; the other two , e ( a ) , o are intermediate sounds that have developed themselves in some languages within the reach of history . The Cumbrian dialect shows the broad and narrow ...
Side 87
... -to cut up for amusement . - Sam Slick . LANCASHIRE WORDS not found generally in the district are yet used to some extent in the south of Westmorland . The following are the principal : CLAM ( D. klemme , G. klemmen , to pinch.
... -to cut up for amusement . - Sam Slick . LANCASHIRE WORDS not found generally in the district are yet used to some extent in the south of Westmorland . The following are the principal : CLAM ( D. klemme , G. klemmen , to pinch.
Side 98
... principal points . There is a strange combina- tion in use with the verb can , exemplified in the following : " He won't can lend you , " " I wadn't could see . ” Anderson has this remarkable idiom : " She yence cud ha ' crammeled , and ...
... principal points . There is a strange combina- tion in use with the verb can , exemplified in the following : " He won't can lend you , " " I wadn't could see . ” Anderson has this remarkable idiom : " She yence cud ha ' crammeled , and ...
Side 101
... principal literary produc- tions of Westmorland are in prose , and have been written in rivalry of the Lancashire Tim Bobbin . This observation is not made in detraction of our Cumbrian literature ; it cannot diminish its value from a ...
... principal literary produc- tions of Westmorland are in prose , and have been written in rivalry of the Lancashire Tim Bobbin . This observation is not made in detraction of our Cumbrian literature ; it cannot diminish its value from a ...
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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