Category: History - European
The first volume of _Celtic Scotland_ being out of print, the Author has very carefully revised the text, with a view to a new edition; but he has, after mature consideration, found nothing to alter in the views of early Scottish history expressed in it. He has therefore confi...
The first volume of _Celtic Scotland_ being out of print, the Author has very carefully revised the text, with a view to a new edition; but he has, after mature consideration, f...
2. CHAPTER I.Early notices of the British Isles 29 B.C. 55. Invasion of Julius Cæsar 31 A.D. 43. Formation of province in reign of Claudius 33 A.D. 50. War with the Brigantes 36 A.D. 69. War...
3. CHAPTER II.Ptolemy’s description of North Britain 62 The coast 65 The Ebudæ 68 The tribes and their towns 70 A.D. 139. First Roman wall between the Forth and Clyde. 76 Establishment of the...
4. CHAPTER III.Obscurity of history of Britain after the departure of the 114 Romans Settlement of barbaric tribes in Britain 114 Ignorance of Britain by writers of the sixth century 115 Posit...
5. CHAPTER IV.Inquiry into Ethnology of Britain proper at this stage 164 An Iberian or Basque people preceded the Celtic race in 164 Britain and Ireland Ethnologic traditions 170 British trad...
6. CHAPTER V.Result of ethnological inquiry 226 The four kingdoms 227 Scottish kingdom of Dalriada 229 Kingdom of the Picts 230 Kingdom of the Britons of Alclyde 235 Kingdom of Bernicia 236...
7. CHAPTER VI.State of the four kingdoms in 731 275 Alteration in their relative position 276 Legend of St. Bonifacius 277 A.D. 710. Nectan, son of Derili, conforms to Rome 278 Establishment...
8. CHAPTER VII.A.D. 889-900. Donald, son of Constantin, king of Alban 335 A.D. 900-942. Constantin, son of Aedh, king of Alban 339 A.D. 937. Battle of Brunanburg 352 A.D. 942-954. Malcolm, son...
9. CHAPTER VIII.A.D. 1005-1034. Malcolm, son of Kenneth, king of Scotia 384 A.D. 1018. Battle of Carham, and cession of Lothian to the 393 Scots A.D. 1034-1040. Duncan, son of Crinan, and grand...
10. CHAPTER IX.Effects of King Malcolm’s death 433 A.D. 1093. Donald Ban, Malcolm’s brother, reigns six months 436 A.D. 1093-1094. Duncan, son of Malcolm, by his first wife 437 Ingibiorg, reig...
11. CHAPTER I.As early as the sixth century before the Christian era, and while their knowledge of Northern Europe was still very imperfect, the Greeks had already become aware of the existen...
12. CHAPTER II.The Romans had now acquired more detailed information regarding the number and position of the tribes of Caledonia, their names, the situation of their towns, and the leading ge...
13. CHAPTER III.The termination of the Roman dominion in Britain produced a great and marked change in its political position and destinies. It ceased to form a part of the great European Empir...
14. CHAPTER IV.Having thus given the traditionary history of that dark interval which intervened between the departure of the Romans from the island of Britain in the beginning of the fifth ce...
15. CHAPTER V.The result of our inquiry into the ethnology of Britain and the race and language of the occupants of its northern districts, hasty and general as, from the limits of this work,...
16. CHAPTER VI.When Bede closes his history, forty-six years after the defeat and death of Ecgfrid, and we lose his invaluable guidance through the annals of this obscure period, he leaves us...
17. CHAPTER VII.The Scots having now placed Donald, the son of Constantin, and the heir, according to the law of Tanistry, on the throne,[481] the succession became firmly established in the ma...
18. CHAPTER VIII.The line of the kings of Scottish descent had now been for a century and a half in possession of the Pictish throne. During the first half-century they had borne the title of ki...
19. CHAPTER IX.The death of Malcolm Ceannmor, though his reign had been prolonged for the unusual period of thirty-five years, was a great misfortune for Scotland. He united in himself so many...
20. vii. The editor seems to consider that it was a genuine charter; butThe Saxon Chronicle has in 1107, ‘In this year also died king Eadgar of Scotland on the Ides of January, and Alexander, his brother, succeeded to the kingdom as King Henry grant...