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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... Sometimes they favoured inhumation and sometimes cremation , followed by the burial of the remains . Some archaeologists have discerned excarnation exposing the body until the flesh had rotted , and then burying the bones . In Neolithic ...
... Sometimes they favoured inhumation and sometimes cremation , followed by the burial of the remains . Some archaeologists have discerned excarnation exposing the body until the flesh had rotted , and then burying the bones . In Neolithic ...
Pagina 119
... sometimes willingly and sometimes reluctantly , was decisively defeated , but with paradoxical results . The royalists and Jacobites , transiently victorious and ultima- tely defeated , became invested with the aura of legend , and ...
... sometimes willingly and sometimes reluctantly , was decisively defeated , but with paradoxical results . The royalists and Jacobites , transiently victorious and ultima- tely defeated , became invested with the aura of legend , and ...
Pagina 170
... Sometimes the removal of tenants did no more than rectify the previously grossly inflated population , but sometimes almost stripped an area of people altogether . '36 From the 1730s onwards there was continuous emigration from the ...
... Sometimes the removal of tenants did no more than rectify the previously grossly inflated population , but sometimes almost stripped an area of people altogether . '36 From the 1730s onwards there was continuous emigration from 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