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 116
... eighteenth century poet : The earasaid is most becoming On many a surpassingly beautiful maiden Between Balavanich ... eighteenth centuries women's costume , at least among the upper classes , began to show the influence of European ...
... eighteenth century poet : The earasaid is most becoming On many a surpassingly beautiful maiden Between Balavanich ... eighteenth centuries women's costume , at least among the upper classes , began to show the influence of European ...
Pagina 153
... 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 as ' dressed usually ...
... 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 as ' dressed usually ...
Pagina 163
... eighteenth century there was general faith in its efficacy . Probably more effective in keeping alive people at the margin of subsistence was a simple improvement in nutrition , the introduction of the potato . First grown in South Uist ...
... eighteenth century there was general faith in its efficacy . Probably more effective in keeping alive people at the margin of subsistence was a simple improvement in nutrition , the introduction of the potato . First grown in South Uist ...
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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