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... succeeded and reigned for forty years , preserving his kingdom from aggression , and securing a long period of peace within his dominions . This king was known among the Highlanders as Olave the Red . He was succeeded by his son ...
... succeeded and reigned for forty years , preserving his kingdom from aggression , and securing a long period of peace within his dominions . This king was known among the Highlanders as Olave the Red . He was succeeded by his son ...
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... succeeded in obtaining , about 1140 , the hand of Ragnhildis , daughter of Olave , surnamed the Red , then the Norwegian King of the Isles . The following curious account relating how Somerled secured the daughter of Olave the Red , is ...
... succeeded in obtaining , about 1140 , the hand of Ragnhildis , daughter of Olave , surnamed the Red , then the Norwegian King of the Isles . The following curious account relating how Somerled secured the daughter of Olave the Red , is ...
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... succeeded in extending his sway over the whole of the Isles . Meanwhile Somerled was not idle . Malcolm IV . was now King of Scotland , and to him Somerled had early made himself obnoxious , by espousing the cause of his nephews , the ...
... succeeded in extending his sway over the whole of the Isles . Meanwhile Somerled was not idle . Malcolm IV . was now King of Scotland , and to him Somerled had early made himself obnoxious , by espousing the cause of his nephews , the ...
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... succeeded to Bute , and was killed in Skye with his three sons in 1210. One of the sons of the latter , James , had a daughter , Jane , who married Alexander , son of Walter , High Steward of Scotland , in right of whom he claimed Bute ...
... succeeded to Bute , and was killed in Skye with his three sons in 1210. One of the sons of the latter , James , had a daughter , Jane , who married Alexander , son of Walter , High Steward of Scotland , in right of whom he claimed Bute ...
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... succeeded to the Southern Isles and part of Argyle , if the Norse Sagas and native writers are to be credited , but his exact position has never been clearly defined . The records of the time are most confusing and obscure , but all are ...
... succeeded to the Southern Isles and part of Argyle , if the Norse Sagas and native writers are to be credited , but his exact position has never been clearly defined . The records of the time are most confusing and obscure , but all are ...
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Página 263 - ENTERTAINED. WHEN death's dark stream I ferry o'er, A time that surely shall come ; In Heaven itself I'll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome.
Página 85 - The white apparel did afterwards belong to the poet by right. Then he was to receive a white rod in his hand, intimating that he had power to rule, not with tyranny and partiality, but with discretion and sincerity. Then he received his forefathers...
Página 205 - After the death of Angus, the Islanders, and the rest of the Highlanders, were let loose, and began to shed one another's blood. Although Angus kept them in obedience while he was sole lord over them, yet, upon his resignation of his rights to the king, all families, his own as well as others, gave themselves up to all sorts of cruelties, which continued for a long time thereafter.
Página 248 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 263 - I'll e'en canter it away till I come to the limit of my race (God grant that I may take the right side of the winning post !) and then cheerfully looking back on the honest folks with whom I have been happy, I shall say or sing,
Página 247 - ... it if he had it ; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Página 287 - The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in ardour by none but our officers, who animated the troops by their example, when the Highland furies rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.
Página 259 - The names of the gentry who fell are too numerous for recapitulation, since there were few families of note in Scotland which did not lose one relative or another, whilst some houses had to weep the death of all. It is from this cause that the sensations of sorrow and national lamentation occasioned by the defeat were peculiarly poignant and lasting ; so that to this day few Scotsmen can hear the name of Flodden, without a shudder of gloomy regret.