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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... stone bed - boxes , a dresser made of stone shelves , and ingeniously constructed stone tanks let into the floor and made watertight with clay , in which live seafood could have been kept , to be eaten in stormy weather . The enormous ...
... stone bed - boxes , a dresser made of stone shelves , and ingeniously constructed stone tanks let into the floor and made watertight with clay , in which live seafood could have been kept , to be eaten in stormy weather . The enormous ...
Pagina 39
... stone bears a very elaborate interlace cross , with a representation of two men fighting with axes in the lower left - hand space , and in the upper right - hand space a centaur bearing an axe in each hand . On the reverse side of the ...
... stone bears a very elaborate interlace cross , with a representation of two men fighting with axes in the lower left - hand space , and in the upper right - hand space a centaur bearing an axe in each hand . On the reverse side of the ...
Pagina 206
... stone cutting . This may be put down to itinerant stone - masons who executed these monuments for the lineage heads . . . Where an alliance was based on a new marriage arrangment then the bridewealth symbol could be added . . . In the ...
... stone cutting . This may be put down to itinerant stone - masons who executed these monuments for the lineage heads . . . Where an alliance was based on a new marriage arrangment then the bridewealth symbol could be added . . . In 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