Scandinavian-Britain

CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND 2 17fuel) the; festingpenny (festa, to stipulate, compare" festermen ") given to a servant on hiring ; gait (galti,a pig) ; garn (garn, yarn) ; gowpen (gaupn, the twohands-full) ; hagworm (hoggormrt viper) ; handsel (Jiandsoly bargain) ; keslop, rennet from a calf (kcesir^ rennet,hlaup, curd) ; laik, to play (leika) ; lathe, a barn(hlcfSa) ley, a scythe (le) ; leister, a salmon-spear(Ijbstr) } look, to weed (lok, weeds) \ meer, a boundary(mceri) ;rake and outrake, path up which sheep aredriven (reka, to drive) ; reckling, the weakest of thelitter(reklingr, an outcast) rean or; raine, the unploughedstrips between the riggs in the ancient systemof cultivation (rein) ; rise, brushwood (hris) ; sieves,rushes from which rush-lights were made (sef);sime,straw-rope (sima, rope) ; sile, a sieve for milk (silt)skemmel, a bench (skemtlt) ; skill, to shell peas(skilja) ) skut, the hind-end board of a cart (skutr^ thestern) ; stang, the cart-shaft (stotig) ; stee, a ladder(stigi) ', stower, a stake (staurr) twinter and trinter,sheep of two and three winters old (tvcevetr and\revetr) ; quey, a young cow (kvigd) ;these are afew of the distinctive dialect words, not all confinedto Cumberland, but all apparently surviving from theNorse farmers (taken from the glossary compiled bythe Rev. T. Ellwood, English Dialect Society, 1895).Dr. Prevost, in his Cumberland Glossary, enumeratesover a hundred different words "applied to beating"and striking but;these are chiefly common Englishand some are modern slang. The old dialect wordsfrom the Norse, as Mr. Ellwood points out, arechiefly and almostly entirely such as were used in