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. 1860 Excerpt: ...Gaelic, Alba and Eirinn, ) "were inhabited by a people of similar descent, language, and customs: " not, therefore, to the later period of the Picts, but rather to the Scottish period, which, according to Chalmers, extends from 843 to 1097. This is succeeded by the Scottish Saxon, when the first Saxon colonies settled ...
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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. 1860 Excerpt: ...Gaelic, Alba and Eirinn, ) "were inhabited by a people of similar descent, language, and customs: " not, therefore, to the later period of the Picts, but rather to the Scottish period, which, according to Chalmers, extends from 843 to 1097. This is succeeded by the Scottish Saxon, when the first Saxon colonies settled in that country; and Saxon customs, legislation, and language gradually gained the ascendant. The exploits and songs of Fingal and Ossian being once assigned to the period of the Normans, much that had before appeared obscure is elucidated, and difficulties which hitherto seemed insuperable vanish in a moment. The first we notice of these is the total silence observed with regard to the southern portion of the island of Great Britain. The Saxons, then reigning in England, were indeed so fully occupied in defending their own dominions against the incursions of the Danes, that they had little time to devote to an invasion of Scotland. Both nations, too, were united by similarity of religious belief. The Anglo-Saxons were Christians, and that faith had long since been diffused in Scotland, although its progress was very gradual, and it was long before its dominion and authority was universally acknowledged. Many dwellers on the rocky fastnesses of the distant Highlands, and many chiefs of the old tribes, were either ignorant, of, or refused to accept the doctrines of Christianity. The worship of the Druids, however, had long been totally extinct; and this circumstance may account for the absence of any reference in these poems to their tenets or institutions, as well as for the peculiar Ossianic mythology, or rather its total deficiency in that respect, --a deficiency, which contributes to fix the apparent origin of the poems at a period, ...
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