Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and CultureConstable, 1991 - 236 pagini An historical and cultural guide to the Scottish Highlands, embracing the early Pictish inhabitants up to the present day. The author examines such topics as the history of the clans, depopulation and emigration, the tourist trade, and highland ecology. |
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Pagina 13
... lowland throughout its length . Beyond Stonehaven a broader wedge of lowland country extends as far as Nairn on the Moray Firth . In the far north , Caithness , the north - eastern promontory of the Scottish mainland , is lowland in ...
... lowland throughout its length . Beyond Stonehaven a broader wedge of lowland country extends as far as Nairn on the Moray Firth . In the far north , Caithness , the north - eastern promontory of the Scottish mainland , is lowland in ...
Pagina 97
... Lowland Scots ' view that the Highlanders were inherently different : they might be fellow Scots , but they were dangerous neighbours , warlike , savage , potentially hostile . This view had been long developing , influenced by such ...
... Lowland Scots ' view that the Highlanders were inherently different : they might be fellow Scots , but they were dangerous neighbours , warlike , savage , potentially hostile . This view had been long developing , influenced by such ...
Pagina 98
... Lowland prejudice as information : Some [ Scots ] are born in the forests and mountains of the north , and these we call men of the Highland , but the others men of the Lowland . By foreigners the former are called Wild Scots , the ...
... Lowland prejudice as information : Some [ Scots ] are born in the forests and mountains of the north , and these we call men of the Highland , but the others men of the Lowland . By foreigners the former are called Wild Scots , the ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Alasdair Alasdair MacColla Alexander ancient Angus Óg Argyll army Balliol battle became best-dressed Highlander Bishop Caledonians Campbell cattle Celtic Celts chiefs Christian Church Clan Donald clansmen crofters crown Dalriada David defeated descendants drovers Duke Earl earldom Edinburgh eighteenth century England English feudal followed Gaelic Gaels Glen Gordon Gordon Donaldson Grant and Cheape Hebrides Highland dress Highland Line Highland regiments Highlands and Islands History I.F. Grant Ibid Inverness Iona Ireland Irish Islay Jacobite Jacobite Rising James VI James VII John kilt kindred King of Scots kingdom Kintyre land later Loch Lord Lordship Lowland MacDonald MacGregor MacKenzies MacPherson Malcolm Malcolm MacHeth Mór Moray nineteenth century Norse Orkney Ossian Pictish Picts plaid poem possession Prince Charles Edward Queen Roman Ross royal Scotland Scottish sheep Skye society Somerled Statutes of Iona Stewart stone Stuart survived Sutherland symbols tartan tenants tradition victory warriors Western Isles