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 150
... drovers had to continue to carry arms , and be prepared to use them . The change from raider to drover could be a short step ; perhaps a change of occupation in one man's lifetime , or within one family a change between one generation ...
... drovers had to continue to carry arms , and be prepared to use them . The change from raider to drover could be a short step ; perhaps a change of occupation in one man's lifetime , or within one family a change between one generation ...
Pagina 152
... drovers , one might be set to watch while the others slept , but the drovers were so accustomed to nights in the open that even when they came to a stance with an inn beside it where some might find a night's lodging , there were many ...
... drovers , one might be set to watch while the others slept , but the drovers were so accustomed to nights in the open that even when they came to a stance with an inn beside it where some might find a night's lodging , there were many ...
Pagina 153
... drovers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries often wore a course plaid of plain brown and white chequer ' , which would have been woven of undyed wool . Towards the end of the nineteenth century drovers were described ...
... drovers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries often wore a course plaid of plain brown and white chequer ' , which would have been woven of undyed wool . Towards the end of the nineteenth century drovers were described ...
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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