Landnama Book of Iceland: As it Illustrates the Dialect, Place Names, Folk Lore, & Antiquities of Cumberland, Westmorland,and North LancashireT. Wilson, Printer, Highgate, 1894 - 69 ページ Originally an ancient manuscript scroll dating back to the 13th century, the Landnama Book (or Landnamabok) is often called The Book of Settlements. A medieval Icelandic work, The Book of Settlements describes in great detailthe settlement of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries. Originally divided into five parts with over 100 chapters, the book recounts the nation's history starting in the West and ending in the South. Today, the book remains an invaluable source to historians and genealogists around the world. |
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alliterative Althing applied Barrow-in-Furness blóts Broughton-in-Furness called Carlisle carved Cleasby Coniston consecrated corresponds court Cumberland dale death derivation descendants dialect district dwelling early Fairhaired fairies farm name Fell field fire Folklore frith Gard Gill given Glossary Grange-over-Sands Grund Harald Havamal heath heathen Heimskringla High Furness high-seat posts Hill Holm Holmgang Iceland Icelandic Commonwealth Ingolf instances island kallaði Kendal Kings of Norway Kirkby Lake Lakeland landic Landnáma Bók Landnama Book Landtake language Lawspeaker Liot lore Magnusson mark meaning menn Millom Moeso-Gothic mound mountain Norse word Norsemen north of England northern öndvegissúlur original settler parish passage place names place-names portion Queen Aud remarkable river rowan tree Saga Scandinavian Scotland seems settled settlement skyldi stone Sturlunga Saga superstitions svá Swinside temple Thor Thord Thorolf Thorsness Thorsteinn took land Torver translated Ulverston Vicarage Vigfusson Wasdale Head Westmorland þat þeir þór Þórólfr
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64 ページ - Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari satis notum est; ne pati quidem inter se iunctas sedes. colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit.
24 ページ - ... to exculpate the heir and those entitled to the possessions of the deceased, from fines and mulcts to the Lord of the Manor, and from all accusation of having used violence : so that the persons then ,convoked might avouch that the person died fairly and without suffering any personal injury. The dead were thus exhibited by antient nations, and perhaps th.> custom was introduced here by the Romans.
43 ページ - ... calmly shone the moonshine pale, On glade and hillock, flower and tree, And sweet the gurgling nightingale Poured forth her music wild and free. Sudden her notes fall hushed ; and near Flutes breathe, horns warble, bridles ring, And, in gay cavalcade, appear The Fairies round their Fairy King. Twelve hundred Elfin knights and more Were there in silk and steel arrayed ; And each a ruby helmet wore, And each a diamond lance displayed. And pursuivants with wands of gold, And minstrels scarfed and...
13 ページ - Baer, bx, by,— a dwelling. an act of violence within it ; if he did so he was called a vargr i veum — "a wolf in the holy place." We have the date of the institution of those quarter courts, one for each of the four political divisions of the county, as they are here instituted by Thord the Yeller, namely, in the year 964 ; and at a later date a Fifth High Court, called Fimtar-d6mr, was instituted about AD 1oo4.
24 ページ - Festival, made at the time of publicly exposing the corps, to exculpate the Heir and those entitled to the possessions of the deceased, from Fines and Mulcts to the Lord of the Manor, and from all accusation of having used violence ; so that the persons then convoked might avouch that the person died fairly and without suffering any personal injury.
8 ページ - The difficulties which my health, my indecision, my 'procrastination,' as M. de Charlus called it, placed in the way of my carrying out any project, had made me put off from day to day, from month to month, from year to year, the elucidation of certain suspicions as also the accomplishment of certain desires.
61 ページ - The same system was known also in Westmorland, for JB Davies, Esq., of Kirkby Stephen, says : — ' The name reeans is used here for narrow strips of grass land, a little higher than the ground on either side, left in closes called field lands or dale lands to mark the division of such land or dale. We have fields called raynes, sloping...
10 ページ - He emigrated to Iceland on account of the tyranny of Harold the Fairhaired, and sailed by the southern part of the land; but when he was came west, off Broadlirth, he threw overboard the high-seat posts, whereon Thorwas carved.
43 ページ - And some wore masks, and some wore hoods, Some turbans rich, some ouches rare ; And some sweet woodbine from the woods, To bind their undulating hair. With all gay tints the darksome shade Grew florid as they passed along, And not a sound their bridles made But tuned itself to Elfin song.
60 ページ - Lakeland, which are spoken of as ' the rake,' just as we speak of 'the fell.' There are also several farms in the district called ' The Outrake,' and I have observed that such farms generally stand at the entrance to a rake or fell drive. The Norse verb reka, also means to drive or drift, as the tide does ; and we have this verb in the place-name of Wreaks End, near Broughton in Furness, derived from a point in the stream close by which makes the end of the tide flow or drift in that direction. On...