Galloway in Ancient and Modern TimesW. Blackwood and sons, 1891 - 324 стор. |
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Galloway: In Ancient and Modern Times (1891) Peter Handyside McKerlie Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2009 |
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Abbey afterwards already mentioned ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon Annals appears Attacotti Baillies Baliol battle became Bede Bordland Brigantes Britain Britons Bruce Brythons called Castle Celtic century charter Chronicles Church Cluyd Clyde coast colonisation connection Cruithne Cumberland Cymri Dalfiatach Danes daughter descendants died district Dovenald Dunegal Dunragit Earl earldom England English erroneous father Fergus followed Gaelic Gaels Gallo Galwegians given Glenluce Abbey Goidels granted inhabitants Iona Ireland Irish Irish-Scots Isle King David King Edward King of Scotland kingdom Kirkcudbrightshire known lands language latter Lords of Galloway MacDouall Malcolm married monks Norman Norse Norse Occupa Norsemen Novantæ obtained occupation origin Orkney Owners in Galloway parish patriot period Picts possessed race refer regard reign Roman Rome Rudhraighe Saxons Scandinavian Scots Scottish settlers slain Somerled statement Strath Strath-Cluyd Strathnith succeeded surname Thorfinn tion tribes Uchtred Ulidians Ulster Wallace Wallace's Whithorn Wigton William Worsaae writers Оссира
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Сторінка 228 - Great, as he is called, about the end of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century...
Сторінка 225 - In the year of our Lord, 565, when Justin, the younger, the successor of Justinian, had the government of the Roman Empire, there came into Britain a famous priest and abbot, a monk by habit and life, whose name was Columba, to preach the Word of God to the provinces of the Northern Picts, who are separated from the Southern parts by steep and rugged mountains...
Сторінка 237 - I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken.
Сторінка 230 - IN the year of our Lord's incarnation 156, Marcus Antoninus Verus, the fourteenth from Augustus, was made emperor, together with his brother, Aurelius Commodus. In their time, whilst Eleutherus, a holy man, presided over the Roman church, Lucius, king of the Britons, sent a letter to him, entreating that by his command he might be made a Christian. He soon obtained his pious request, and the Britons preserved the faith, which they had received, uncorrupted and entire, in peace and tranquillity until...
Сторінка 226 - That island has for its ruler an abbot, who is a priest, to whose direction all the province, and even the bishops contrary to the usual method are subject, according to the example of their first teacher, who was not a bishop, but a priest and monk ; of whose life and discourses some writings are said to be preserved by his disciples.
Сторінка 225 - Columba came into Britain in the ninth year of the reign of Bridius, who was the son of Meilochon, and the powerful king of the Pictish nation, and he converted that nation to the faith of Christ, by his preaching and example...
Сторінка 96 - Regnold and the son of Eadulf, and all those who dwell in Northumbria, as well English as Danes, and Northmen and others, and also the king of the Strathclyde Britons, and all the Strathclyde Britons.
Сторінка 226 - ... priest, to whose direction all the province, and even the bishops contrary to the usual method are subject, according to the example of their first teacher, who was not a bishop, but a priest and monk ; of whose life and discourses some writings are said to be preserved by his disciples. But whatsoever he was himself, this we know for certain, that he left successors renowned for their continency, their love of God, and observance of monastic rules.
Сторінка 225 - His successors hold the island to this day ; he was also buried therein, having died at the age of seventy-seven, about thirty-two years after he came into Britain to preach. Before he passed over into Britain, he had built a noble monastery in Ireland, which, from the great number of oaks, is in the Scottish tongue called Dearm-ach — The Field of Oaks.
Сторінка 253 - At this period the condition of the Highlands, so far as it is discoverable from the few authentic documents which have reached our times, appears to have been in the highest degree rude and uncivilized. There existed a singular combination of Celtic and of feudal manners. Powerful chiefs of Norman name and Norman blood had penetrated into the remotest districts...