Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban, Volume 3David Douglas, 1890 - Scotland |
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agus Alasdair Alban Alexander the Second Alexander the Third Ancient Laws Angus appears Argyll barony bishop Buchan Caithness called callit charter chief church Clan Cameron Clann Colla Colla Uais connection consisted Cormac cows Crown daughter davach David demesne descended districts Domhnall Donald Duncan earl of Atholl earl of Fife earl of Lennox earl of Ross Earl of Stratherne earldom Eoin Erinn father Fergus feudal Fife Finé Firth Flath Fordun formed four Geilfiné genealogies grants heirs held Highland Innsigall Ireland Irish island Isles John king kingdom legends Lennox likewise Lord Malcolm Malise merk land mhic Moray Morgund Mormaer Mormaer of Moray Norwegian Orkney Pictish Picts ploughgate possession province race Reginald reign of Alexander Saxon Scone Scotland Scots Scottish sept Somerled sons Stratherne tenants termed territory thair thairof thanage thane Toisech tribe Tuath Tuogh Ulster Welsh William the Lion
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Page 184 - The head of every tribe, according to the people, should be the man of the tribe who is the most experienced, the most noble, the most wealthy, the wisest, the most learned, the most truly popular, the most powerful to oppose, the most steadfast to sue for profits and be sued for losses
Page 456 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master...
Page 115 - O'Clery, too, has muireann .1. ga no sleagh. — Ed. MUG-ÉIME, that is the name of the first lapdog that was in Ireland. Cairbre Muse, son of Conaire (1) brought it from the east from Britain; for when great was the power of the Gael on Britain, they divided Alba between them into districts, and each knew the residence of his friend, and not less did the Gael dwell on the east side of the sea quam in Scotica, and their habitations and royal forts were built there.
Page 324 - The ordinary Highlanders esteem it the most sublime Degree of Virtue to love their Chief, and pay him a blind Obedience, although it be in Opposition to the Government, the Laws of the Kingdom, or even to the Law of God.
Page 304 - ... Alpin, was situated, give great probability to it." It is remarkable that probably the most characteristic survival of early Celtic usages is associated with Fife, the most southern and eastern of the provinces originally held by a Gaelic race. This was the Law of Clan Macduff, or the privilege by which any manslayer being within the ninth degree of kin and blood to Macduff, sometime Earl of Fife, on coming to the cross of the Clan Macduff which divided Strathearn from Fife, and giving nine cows...
Page 325 - And, lastly, they have an adherence to one another as Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in their power. This last arises from a tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals...
Page 456 - The Afghaun's most ordinary mode of divination is by examining the marks in the blade-bone of a sheep, held up to the light ; and even so the Rev. Mr Robert Kirk assures us, that in his time, the end of the sixteenth century, " the seers prognosticate many future events (only for a month's space) from the shoulder-bone of a sheep on which a knife never came. By looking into the bone, they will tell if whoredom be committed in the owner's house ; what money the master of the sheep had ; if any will...
Page 325 - Possession of their Ancestors. . . . The Chief exercises an arbitrary Authority over his Vassals, determines all Differences and Disputes that happen among them, and levies Taxes upon extraordinary Occasions, such as the Marriage of a Daughter, building a House, or some Pretence for his Support and the Honour of the Name.
Page 318 - This, by means of a small portion, and the liberality of their relations, they are able to stock, and which they, their children and grandchildren, possess at an easy rent, till a nearer descendant be again preferred to it. As the propinquity removes, they become less considered, till at last they degenerate to be of the common people, unless some accidental acquisition of wealth supports them above their station. As this hath been an ancient custom, most of the farmers and cottars are of the name...
Page 27 - ... nation of the Moravienses from the land of their birth, as of old Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had dealt with the Jews, and scattered them throughout the other districts of Scotland, both beyond the mountains,' that is, the Mounth, ' and on this side thereof, so that not even one native of that land abode there, and installed therein his own peaceful people...