The Highland Clans of Scotland: Their History and Traditions, المجلد 2Heath, Cranton Limited, 1923 |
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afterwards Alastair Alexander ancestor ancient Angus Argyll army Atholl BADGE battle battle of Harlaw became brother Camerons Campbell Castle century Charles charter chiefship Clan Chattan Clan MacKay clansmen Comyn Culloden daughter death descended died Donald Duke Duncan Dunmaglass Earl of Caithness Earl of Mar Earl of Ross Earl of Sutherland earldom Eileandonan eldest estates famous fell feud force fought Gaelic Glen Glengarry Hector Highland honour Huntly Inverness island Isles Jacobite James James VI John Keppoch Kilravock King Robert Kintail known Lachlan Lady laird lands later Loch Lochaber Lord Lorne MacDonald MacDougal MacGillivray MacIver MacKay Mackenzie Mackinnon Mackintosh chief MacLachlan MacLaurins Maclean MacLeod MacNab MacNiel Macpherson MacRae Malcolm Marquess marriage married Matheson Menzies Montrose Moray Munro Ogilvy PIBROCH possession Prince race Robert the Bruce Rothiemurcus Scotland Scottish SEPTS OF CLAN Shaw Sinclair Skene slain sons Stewart stronghold succeeded took tradition Urquhart wife William
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 365 - There's some say that we wan, Some say that they wan, Some say that nane wan at a', man ; But ae thing I'm sure, That at Sheriffmuir A battle there was, which I saw, man ; And we ran, and they ran, And they ran and we ran, And we ran, and they ran awa, man.
الصفحة 369 - ... but if you looked from the windows, the view was such as to correspond with the highest tone of superstition. An autumnal blast, sometimes clear, sometimes driving mist before it, swept along the troubled billows of the lake, which it occasionally concealed, and by fits disclosed. The waves rushed in wild disorder on the shore, and covered with foam the steep...
الصفحة 391 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
الصفحة 369 - Amid such tales of ancient tradition, I had from Macleod and his lady the courteous offer of the haunted apartment of the castle, about which, as a stranger, I might be supposed interested. Accordingly, I took possession of it about the witching hour. Except perhaps some tapestry hangings, and the extreme thickness of the walls, which argued great antiquity, nothing could have been more comfortable than the interior of the...
الصفحة 463 - Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
الصفحة 265 - As a Memorial of the ample and summary Vengeance which, in the swift course of Feudal Justice, inflicted by the orders of the Lord MacDonnell and Aross, overtook the perpetrators of the foul Murder of the Keppoch Family, a branch of the Powerful and Illustrious Clan of which his Lordship was the Chief, this Monument is erected by Colonel MacDonell of Glengarry XVII. Mac-mhic Alastair, his Successor and Representative, in the year of our Lord 1812.
الصفحة 265 - Mac-Mhic-Alaister, his successor and representative, in the year of our Lord 1812. The heads of the seven murderers were presented at the feet of the noble chief in Glengarry Castle, after having been washed in this spring, and ever since that event, which took place early in the sixteenth century, it has been known by the name of ' Tobar-nan-ceann,' or
الصفحة 265 - Overtook the perpetrators of , the foul Murder of The Keppoch Family, A branch of The powerful and Illustrious Clan Of which His Lordship was The Chief, This Monument Is erected by Colonel Macdonnell of Glengarry, XVII.
الصفحة 393 - Mackrycul had recovered a great quantity of cattle carried off from the county of Sutherland by foreign invaders." Mackenzie adds in a note, " Mackrycul is reputed by the people here to be the potent man of whom are descended the Macnicols, Nicols, and Nicolsons." According to the Gaelic genealogical manu-script of 1450, on which Skene founds so much of his writing regarding the clans, this account is probably correct, for in that manuscript the descent of the Clan Nicail is traced in a direct line...
الصفحة 369 - Riders of the Storm. There was something of the dignity of danger in the scene ; for on a platform beneath the windows lay an ancient battery of cannon, which had sometimes been used against privateers even of late years. The distant scene was a view of that part of the Quillan mountains which are called, from their form, Macleod's Dining-Tables.