The history of Scotland ... to the middle of the ninth century1826 |
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Abisa Achy afterwards Agric Agricola Aidan Albanic Duan Ammianus Marcellinus ancient Scots Annals of Ulster Aodh-fin appears apud Argyle army barbarous battle Beda Britain British Britons Cæs Cæsar Caledonia Celtic nations chief Christianity Chron Chronic Chronicon clans colonies Columba Conal conquests Dalriada dominions Donal Brec Druids Eccl empire enemy Eochoid Ethelwerd Fergus Fordun Galloway Gaul Gildas Hist house of Loarn Hyona Ibid inhabitants Ireland Irish island isle Itinerarium Jutes king kingdom land Latin laws lived Loarn Malduin monarch Nenn Nennius northern Northumbrian Ossian Palladius Paulus Diaconus period Pictish Pictorum Picts Picts and Scots possession prince provinces Ptolemy quæ race reign religion Reuda Roman Rythmicum Saxons Scoti Scotia Scotland Scotorum Scotos Scots Scots and Picts Scottish nation Selvach settlement Solinus Strabo Stratclyde supra Tacitus Theodosius third century throne Tighernac tribes troops Ulster Annal Valentia victory Vortigern warlike writers
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Страница 58 - Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire.
Страница 231 - Bass, where he led a life, without all question, contemplative and strict, in which for many years he held up to remembrance the most blessed Kentigern, his instructor, in the constant contemplation of the sanctity of his conduct...
Страница 211 - High German' alone, that is, the dialects of south and central Germany, and the principal specimens of the oldest High German literature date only from the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century.
Страница 317 - Hibernians," says that writer, " who were called Scots in this [the eighth] century, were lovers of learning, and distinguished themselves in these times of ignorance by the culture of the sciences beyond all the other European nations, travelling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and to communicate their knowledge...
Страница 299 - Iconoclast sovereigns lived at the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth century: the Patriarch Nicephorus and the monk Theophanes.
Страница 160 - Neoplatonists, who lived at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century, wrote on the same subject.
Страница 39 - Giidaa et a dismal condition they were in ; " that the barbarians pushed them to the sea, and the sea drove them back upon the barbarians ; so that they had only the choice left them of the two ways of dying, either to be drowned, or have their throats cut.
Страница 317 - ... in France, Germany, and Italy, both during this and the following century. But that these Hibernians were the first teachers of the scholastic theology in Europe, and so early as the eighth century illustrated the doctrines of religion by the principles of philosophy) I learned but lately...
Страница 219 - Pliny says they began their months and years, " not from the change, but from the sixth day of the moon.