Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 40
... Saxon history , " were the worst informed of the events , and the least scrupulous of traditionists . Hengist and Horsa , the supposed leaders on whom the whole of the first invasion is laid , are myths , the words being in English ...
... Saxon history , " were the worst informed of the events , and the least scrupulous of traditionists . Hengist and Horsa , the supposed leaders on whom the whole of the first invasion is laid , are myths , the words being in English ...
Side 41
... Saxon language is no longer the Angle or Saxon of the continent . It has been remarked in the imperfect investigation of the graves , † that the Saxon habits , as seen through the sepulchral remains , are strongly Romanised . How could ...
... Saxon language is no longer the Angle or Saxon of the continent . It has been remarked in the imperfect investigation of the graves , † that the Saxon habits , as seen through the sepulchral remains , are strongly Romanised . How could ...
Side 42
... Saxon Chronicle , their country lay waste for many years between the Jutes and the Saxons . The marshy and un- healthy state of the district is the only probable cause of this total desertion . Of the two great invading tribes , the Saxons ...
... Saxon Chronicle , their country lay waste for many years between the Jutes and the Saxons . The marshy and un- healthy state of the district is the only probable cause of this total desertion . Of the two great invading tribes , the Saxons ...
Side 43
... Saxons entered Cumbria from the south . Under their most peculiarly distinctive mark , the termination ham , they do not seem to have made much impression even on Lancashire . In Westmor- land , their principal settlements were near the ...
... Saxons entered Cumbria from the south . Under their most peculiarly distinctive mark , the termination ham , they do not seem to have made much impression even on Lancashire . In Westmor- land , their principal settlements were near the ...
Side 44
... Saxons tended very much to fill these counties , it remained for the Danes and the Norsemen to assume an apparent ... Saxon parts , where in such cases ton is never found except as an addition to the older name . Northampton ...
... Saxons tended very much to fill these counties , it remained for the Danes and the Norsemen to assume an apparent ... Saxon parts , where in such cases ton is never found except as an addition to the older name . Northampton ...
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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