 | James Maclehose (publisher.) - Scotland - 1907 - 560 pages
...competent native scholar, the late Balfour of Trenaby, in his Odal Rights and Feudal ffrongs, 'the little Court of Orkney was the most elegant and refined...official services of many proud Scottish nobles'; while the inscribed and sculptured stones which have been found are silent but suggestive memorials... | |
 | Scotland - 1907 - 560 pages
...competent native scholar, the late Balfour of Trenaby, in his Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs, ' the little Court of Orkney was the most elegant and refined...official services of many proud Scottish nobles'; while the inscribed and sculptured stones which have been found are silent but suggestive memorials... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1911 - 500 pages
...on the high seas — and who ruled from about 1400 to 1418, reigned in a court which, says Balfour,* was " the most elegant and refined in Europe, and...official services of many proud Scottish Nobles." Birsay Palace — not the Norse Jarls' one, nor yet Earl Patrick's one, but that falatium excel/ens... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Archaeology - 1913 - 596 pages
...lands.1 So late as the fourteenth, and early fifteenth, century, in the days of Earl Henry II., the little Court of Orkney was " the most elegant and refined in Europe, with the official services of many proud Scottish nobles," if we may accept as an approximation to... | |
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the little Court of Orkney was the most elegant and refined in Europe, and adorned with the official services of many proud Scottish nobles... 