Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 17
... Britain , we find that the first inhabitants of both islands were the same people . And in fact all the seafaring tribes of the west and north of Europe , for a considerable period , were Hiberno - Celts . The five great headlands of ...
... Britain , we find that the first inhabitants of both islands were the same people . And in fact all the seafaring tribes of the west and north of Europe , for a considerable period , were Hiberno - Celts . The five great headlands of ...
Side 18
... Britain , and wherever else they are found , they probably penetrated from thence . All North Wales was colonised by this division , as well as a part of Scotland , where they were known as the Picts . The latter tribe may have given ...
... Britain , and wherever else they are found , they probably penetrated from thence . All North Wales was colonised by this division , as well as a part of Scotland , where they were known as the Picts . The latter tribe may have given ...
Side 19
... Britain with the people of the Bronze age of Denmark . Three distinct peoples have hitherto been traced in Britain ; but even prior to the Roman conquest , for linguistic reasons , a fourth must be assumed . It is not a modern opinion ...
... Britain with the people of the Bronze age of Denmark . Three distinct peoples have hitherto been traced in Britain ; but even prior to the Roman conquest , for linguistic reasons , a fourth must be assumed . It is not a modern opinion ...
Side 20
... Britain ; it remains to enquire where did the first tribes migrate from ? when and why did they come ? In ancient Irish history , some mention is made of a people called the Tuadha de Danan , the Tuads of the Dan country ( Denmark ) — a ...
... Britain ; it remains to enquire where did the first tribes migrate from ? when and why did they come ? In ancient Irish history , some mention is made of a people called the Tuadha de Danan , the Tuads of the Dan country ( Denmark ) — a ...
Side 21
... Britain . The unaccountable movements of the Senones , Teutones , and and other tribes , as related by the ancient authors , seem to have been an ordinary feature of the time . Mere love of plunder could not have produced the desperate ...
... Britain . The unaccountable movements of the Senones , Teutones , and and other tribes , as related by the ancient authors , seem to have been an ordinary feature of the time . Mere love of plunder could not have produced the desperate ...
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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