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 40
... Scots , which had taken place by c . 850.6 That the union took place under a Scottish and not a Pictish king might have seemed an unlikely outcome when the Scots first established their colony on the fringe of the Western Highlands ...
... Scots , which had taken place by c . 850.6 That the union took place under a Scottish and not a Pictish king might have seemed an unlikely outcome when the Scots first established their colony on the fringe of the Western Highlands ...
Pagina 50
... Scottish king to rule over both Picts and Scots appears to have been Constantine son of Fergus , of the Cenel nGabráin ( d . 820 ) , who appears in the Pictish king list as Castantin son of Uurguist . He was succeeded by his brother ...
... Scottish king to rule over both Picts and Scots appears to have been Constantine son of Fergus , of the Cenel nGabráin ( d . 820 ) , who appears in the Pictish king list as Castantin son of Uurguist . He was succeeded by his brother ...
Pagina 98
... [ 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 latter householding Scots . The Irish tongue ...
... [ 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 latter householding Scots . The Irish tongue ...
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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