The Highlanders of ScotlandE. Mackay, 1902 - 427 pagina's |
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abbot afterwards Alexander ancestor ancient Angus Annals appears Argyll Atholl barons Bede bishop branch Britons brother Brude Caithness Camerons Campbells Celtic Scotland century charter chiefship Chronicles clan Chattan clan Ranald conquest consequence crown Cruithne Culdee Culdee church Dalriads daughter death descended district Donald doubt Dugall Duncan earl of Moray earl of Ross earldom earls of Lennox Ewen feud feudal Gadelic Gael Gaelic Gallgael Garmoran genealogy Grant heiress Highland Highland clans inhabitants Inverness Ireland Irish Isles John Kenneth king Kintyre Knapdale lands Lochaber lord Lorn Macdonalds Macfarlane Macgregor Macintoshes Mackay Mackenzies Macleans Macleods Macphersons Malcolm Maormors marriage mentioned Norman Norse Norse Sagas northern Picts Norwegian obtained oldest cadet origin Orkney Paul Mac peculiar period Pictish Pictish Chronicle Picts possession principal provinces race reign Sagas Saxon Scots Scottish Skene Somerled succeeded succession Sutherland territories Thane Thorfinn throne tradition tribes Welsh
Populaire passages
Pagina 389 - This island at present, following the number of the books in which the Divine law was written, contains five nations, the English, Britons, Scots, Picts, and Latins, each in its own peculiar dialect cultivating the sublime study of Divine truth.
Pagina 154 - The manner of the hunting is this : five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Pagina 155 - ... and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain ; which after are disposed of, some one way, and some another, twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough left for us, to make merry withal, at our rendezvous.
Pagina 148 - Their habit is shoes with but one sole apiece ; stockings (which they call short hose) made of a warm stuff of divers colours, which they call tartan : as for breeches, many of them, nor their forefathers never wore any, but a jerkin of the same stuff that their hose is of, their garters being bands or wreaths of hay or straw, with a plaid about their shoulders, which is a mantle of divers colours, of much finer and lighter stuff than their hose, with blue flat caps on their heads, a handkerchief...
Pagina 148 - Their habit is — shoes, with but one sole a-piece ; stockings (which they call short hose), made of a warm stuff of divers colours, which they call tartan ; as for breeches, many of them, nor their forefathers, never wore any, but a jerkin of the same...
Pagina 110 - Moreover, there was a judge in every Isle for the discussion of all controversies, who had lands from Macdonald for their trouble, and likewise the eleventh part of every action decided. But there might be still an appeal to the Council of the Isles. MacFinnon was •obliged to see weights and measures adjusted ; and MacDuffie, or MacPhie of Colonsay, kept the records of the Isles.
Pagina 155 - ... compass, they do bring, or chase in the deer, in many herds, (two, three, or four hundred in a herd,) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when...
Pagina 155 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Pagina 145 - The rest of their garments consisted of a short woollen jacket, with the sleeves open below for the convenience of throwing their darts, and a covering for the thighs of the simplest kind, more for decency than for show or a defence against cold.