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 38
... Pictish princesses and a strict application of matrilinear principles . Yet this seems inherently unlikely because it would so obviously have weakened the kingdom of the Picts . A more likely explanation is that the kings in question ...
... Pictish princesses and a strict application of matrilinear principles . Yet this seems inherently unlikely because it would so obviously have weakened the kingdom of the Picts . A more likely explanation is that the kings in question ...
Pagina 39
... Pictish silverware , which is of high quality . The purpose of the symbol stones is as mysterious as the symbols themselves . It has been suggested that they could have marked the boundaries of tribal territories ; or since the symbols ...
... Pictish silverware , which is of high quality . The purpose of the symbol stones is as mysterious as the symbols themselves . It has been suggested that they could have marked the boundaries of tribal territories ; or since the symbols ...
Pagina 50
... Pictish culture . But recent research has shown that this was not a sudden reversal after a century of Pictish domination . By c . 750 Teudubr son of Bili , King of Strathclyde , had made himself overlord of the Picts . The first ...
... Pictish culture . But recent research has shown that this was not a sudden reversal after a century of Pictish domination . By c . 750 Teudubr son of Bili , King of Strathclyde , had made himself overlord of the Picts . The first ...
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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