This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...the monarch, and a great number ol his troops, were slain. The Annals of Donegal give this event under A.d. 56. I hope that the reader will Irvine's Historial Scoticse Nomenclatura, p. 129. Glasgow Ed. 1819. f There is a specimen of this Seanachie's hand writing given in Betham'a researches of the Ant. of Ireland. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...the monarch, and a great number ol his troops, were slain. The Annals of Donegal give this event under A.d. 56. I hope that the reader will Irvine's Historial Scoticse Nomenclatura, p. 129. Glasgow Ed. 1819. f There is a specimen of this Seanachie's hand writing given in Betham'a researches of the Ant. of Ireland. excuse me for this apparent digression, because there is no intention of that kind in it; and that what is chiefly designed by this sketch, is to show the designing and low fraud of the Eireanaich in their attempts to deceive, in making Picts of our countrymen several centuries before that appellation was heard of; and all for fear of giving them their true name, Albannaich: for had they done so, the Dalriadan fabric would fall about their ears--and so farewell the lies of Lhudd, &c. That secondly, it is presumed that from a careful perusal of these facts, it will fully appear that the painted Picts of the fourth century had no connection whatever with those early colonists in Ireland, nor, in fact, with anything else known of their history. That lastly, it is certain that were we deprived of every resource on earth but the Ossianic poems, we could prove from their contents, that the Fingalians were Scotsmen, frequently employed in defending the principality in the north of Erin from the encroachments of the Lagenians, in " Irish" Leighlin, that is Leinster--men foolishly in modern times transformed it into Locldanaich, i.e. Danes, or Scandinavians; hence the vulgar notion that the Fingalians contended with the North-men; whereas, in truth, the above Eireanaich were their fierce and restless rivals during the whole period of contention historically treated of in the poems of Ossian. That, on the whole, it is expected that these few b...
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