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 edition. Excerpt: ...their heroic leader, retired to Home, where he took the cowl. Strathclyde was now attached to the Scottish crown, and the Scots and Picts became mingled with the Strathclyde Britons. From the Cimbri, of whom, as we have shown, they were ihiefly descended. t At a later period he admits that the Northmen made ...
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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 edition. Excerpt: ...their heroic leader, retired to Home, where he took the cowl. Strathclyde was now attached to the Scottish crown, and the Scots and Picts became mingled with the Strathclyde Britons. From the Cimbri, of whom, as we have shown, they were ihiefly descended. t At a later period he admits that the Northmen made settle-ntuts in Caithness and Sutherland. But he insists that the Teuton e of Buchan are the descendants of Flemish settlers in the eleventh century! The very name of the district, Lothian, is Chalmers himse shows, is explainable only in the language of the Northmen-Lat-ting, Lotting, or Lodding, meaning a jurisdiction on tli march, and yet, with characteristic perversity, he derives tli name of the Pentland hills from the Saxon, in which Pentlan would mean an enclosed field; and to suit his purpose in this, fe reverses the general rule in such cases, by making the hills bono their name from the parish, and not the parish from the till It is quite possible that the name of the parish might have or ginated in an enclosed field, but to suppose that a single spot this kind should give its name to such a range of hills as tho of the Pentlands, which extend southward to the limits of Peebla is rather too much. It is more reasonable to suppose that suo a prominent natural feature, like similar objects almost, ever where else, had a name before parishes were in existence. Pe Man, in the British, which has nearly a similar meaning, as chi enclosure or end of the enclosure, is equally objectionable. The is no alternative, therefore, but to hold by the popular opini that Pentland is a corruption of Pechtland, or Pictland, aa the word Pentland Frith. Meanwhile a fresh infusion of Celtic blood had been thrown into the ancient district of the Novantes and...
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