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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... head as the seat of power led Celtic warriors to collect the heads of their slaughtered enemies . Sanctuaries were decorated with skulls and sculptures of severed heads . Human sacrifice was practised by ritual burning , drowning or ...
... head as the seat of power led Celtic warriors to collect the heads of their slaughtered enemies . Sanctuaries were decorated with skulls and sculptures of severed heads . Human sacrifice was practised by ritual burning , drowning or ...
Pagina 84
... head of the executed assassin , exposed on a stake : Thou head of Diarmaid O'Cairbre , though great enough are thy spoils and thy pride , not too great I deem the amount of thy distress though thou hangest from a stake . I pity not thy ...
... head of the executed assassin , exposed on a stake : Thou head of Diarmaid O'Cairbre , though great enough are thy spoils and thy pride , not too great I deem the amount of thy distress though thou hangest from a stake . I pity not thy ...
Pagina 107
... heads of leading members of the clan , and of 1,000 merks on the heads of lesser men ; any clansman could earn his own pardon by bringing before the Privy Council the head of another an echo of the customs of the pagan Celts . - The ...
... heads of leading members of the clan , and of 1,000 merks on the heads of lesser men ; any clansman could earn his own pardon by bringing before the Privy Council the head of another an echo of the customs of the pagan Celts . - The ...
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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