60 NOR THMEN DESCENT. 



title, considers those hardy independent races, 

 especially the Norwegians, as the original of 

 the existing population. Alluding to the 

 practice of the Northmen, of giving the name 

 of the departed chief not only in the mound 

 (How) in which he was buried, but also in 

 many cases to the valley or plain in which 

 it was situated, he remarks, and I repeat his 

 words now, because so applicable, "Upon 

 many of the lower heights which encircle 

 our beautiful lakes, the Viking has reared his 

 tomb from the summit of Silver-How, an 

 old chieftain looks down upon the lowly grave 

 of Wordsworth ; and the tourist, as he climbs 

 upon Butterlip-How, a favourite site for the 

 survey of the lovely plain of Grasmere, treads 

 over the ashes of a once nimble-footed North- 

 man. We might almost imagine, in the still- 

 ness of a summer eve, the ghosts of those grim 

 warriors, seated each on his sepulchral hill, 

 looking down, as was their firm belief, upon 

 the peaceful scene below. Silver-How is de- 

 rived from the proper name of Solvar; while in 

 Butterlip-How we find the name Buthar Lipr 

 (pronounced, as nearly as may be, Butterlip,) 

 Buthar the nimble, " 



