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 48
... Northumbria , where King Oswiu convened the Synod of Whitby in 664 to decide between the merits of the two rites . The Celtic Church had been established in Northumbria , under St Aidan of Lindisfarne , who had been a monk of Iona , in ...
... Northumbria , where King Oswiu convened the Synod of Whitby in 664 to decide between the merits of the two rites . The Celtic Church had been established in Northumbria , under St Aidan of Lindisfarne , who had been a monk of Iona , in ...
Pagina 49
... Northumbrian King Aldfrith , was convinced by the Roman arguments in Northumbria . He spent the rest of his life attempting to persuade the Picts and Scots to accept the Roman rite , in which he had failed at his death in 704. The Iona ...
... Northumbrian King Aldfrith , was convinced by the Roman arguments in Northumbria . He spent the rest of his life attempting to persuade the Picts and Scots to accept the Roman rite , in which he had failed at his death in 704. The Iona ...
Pagina 50
... Northumbria . When Bridei died in 693 , Adomnán , friend of many kings , lamented him with moving words on the power of death over the most powerful of men : It is strange , it is strange , That after being in the kingship of the people ...
... Northumbria . When Bridei died in 693 , Adomnán , friend of many kings , lamented him with moving words on the power of death over the most powerful of men : It is strange , it is strange , That after being in the kingship of the people ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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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