The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Their Main Features and Relations, المجلد 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893 |
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... CATRAIL , VIII . CYMRIC WORSHIP EARLY CHRISTIANITY -NINIAN- KENTIGERN - CUTHBERT , 210 IX . MERLIN , . 224 X. CUMBRIA AND SCOTLAND UNDER DAVID I. AS PRINCE AND KING , AND DOWN TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER III . , IN 1285-86 , 241 XI . THE ...
... CATRAIL , VIII . CYMRIC WORSHIP EARLY CHRISTIANITY -NINIAN- KENTIGERN - CUTHBERT , 210 IX . MERLIN , . 224 X. CUMBRIA AND SCOTLAND UNDER DAVID I. AS PRINCE AND KING , AND DOWN TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER III . , IN 1285-86 , 241 XI . THE ...
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... Catrail . In Dumfriesshire we have several well- defined examples of rectilinear , generally square , en- closures as Birrenswark , the Garpol Camp , two in Wamphray Glen , and Frenchland , near Moffat . One markedly triangular occurs ...
... Catrail . In Dumfriesshire we have several well- defined examples of rectilinear , generally square , en- closures as Birrenswark , the Garpol Camp , two in Wamphray Glen , and Frenchland , near Moffat . One markedly triangular occurs ...
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... Catrail . On the south side of the Tweed , opposite Makerston , is a work obviously of the nature of a mote . Its position , like the mote of Liddel , is on a high cliff overhanging the river , and it bears the name of Ringley Hall . It ...
... Catrail . On the south side of the Tweed , opposite Makerston , is a work obviously of the nature of a mote . Its position , like the mote of Liddel , is on a high cliff overhanging the river , and it bears the name of Ringley Hall . It ...
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... Catrail , of which we have remains in the valley of Ettrick below , north - east of Stanhope Foot , and to the south on the Home Law and by Clear Burn Loch . This fort is directly in what was the probable course of the old ditch . Then ...
... Catrail , of which we have remains in the valley of Ettrick below , north - east of Stanhope Foot , and to the south on the Home Law and by Clear Burn Loch . This fort is directly in what was the probable course of the old ditch . Then ...
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... Catrail , at indeed a point where this line is usually supposed to terminate . 1 Mr Dalrymple Duncan in Trans . Glasgow Archæological Society , No. xxv . , 1886. See Mr J. Anderson , Scotland in Pagan Times , 174 et seq . 1883 . 2 These ...
... Catrail , at indeed a point where this line is usually supposed to terminate . 1 Mr Dalrymple Duncan in Trans . Glasgow Archæological Society , No. xxv . , 1886. See Mr J. Anderson , Scotland in Pagan Times , 174 et seq . 1883 . 2 These ...
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Abbey Aethelfrith Alexander ancient Angle Anglo-Saxon appears Arthur Arthurian ballad bard battle Bernicia Border boundary Britain Britons Brythonic burgh Burn Caer Carta Castle Catrail Celtic century charter Church Clyde Cornish Cumbria Cymric Damnonii Danes Danish David defence district ditch doubt Earl early east Edward England English Erceldoune Ettrick feet feudal Firth forest forts Gadeni Gaelic glen ground Guledig haugh hills Historia Britonum Ibid Jedburgh Kentigern king kingdom of Strathclyde land language later Liddel Loch Lord Lowlands of Scotland Malcolm Melrose Merlin monks Moreville mote mound Nennius northern Northumbria original passed Peebles Peeblesshire Peel Fell period Picts poems probably race regarded Rhymour Roman Roxburgh Roxburghshire Saxon Scandinavian Scots Scott Scottish Selkirkshire side Sir Simon Fraser Skene Solway southern stone stream supposed Taliessin Teviot Thomas Traquair tribes Tweed Tweeddale valley Vortigern wall Water Welsh wild Wood of Caledon Yarrow
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الصفحة 113 - Hill, and innumerable others of the same sort. These are all faithful to fact and superficial aspect, but they indicate no imaginative feeling about the objects named. Hawkshaw and Stanhope somewhat redeem the character of the Saxon names, and Windlestrae Law may pass for its literalness and suggestiveness of the brown and breezy bent. The Cymri, who were in the district before the Teutons, must have had a singularly fine musical sense ; and although we are not able always to trace the inner significance...
الصفحة 240 - Merlin, overtalk'd and overworn, Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept. Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use and name and fame. Then crying ' I have made his glory mine...
الصفحة 225 - When, with his Norman bowyer band, He came to waste Northumberland. xvi. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name...
الصفحة 140 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again,* But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
الصفحة 140 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
الصفحة 239 - It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless King. And after that, she set herself to gain Him, the most famous man of all those times, Merlin, who knew the range of all their arts, Had built the King his havens, ships, and halls, Was also Bard, and knew the starry heavens...
الصفحة 235 - O little pig! now apply thyself to reason, And listen to birds whose notes are pleasant, Sovereigns across the sea will come on Monday; Blessed will the Cymry be from that design. V. Sweet appletree that grows in the glade ! Their vehemence will conceal it from the lords of Rydderch, Trodden it is around its base, and men are about it. Terrible to them were heroic forms. Gwendydd loves me not, greets me not; I am hated by the firmest minister of Rydderch ; I have ruined his son and his daughter.
الصفحة 18 - Caddon Ford,* And full five thousand men was he; They saw the derke Foreste them before, They thought it awsome for to see. Then spak the lord, hight Hamilton, And to the nobil king said he, 'My sovereign liege, sum council tak, First at your nobilis, syne at me.
الصفحة 353 - WA8 at [Erceldoune :] With Tomas spak Y thare ; Ther herd Y rede in roune, Who Tristrem gat and bare. Who was king with croun ; And who him forsterd yare ; And who was bold baroun, As thair elders ware, Bi yere : — Tomas telles in toun, This auentours as thai ware.
الصفحة 343 - Dunbar demanda a Thomas de Essedoune quant la guere descoce prendreit fyn, e yl la repoundy e dyt" — " When man as mad a kyng of a capped man ; When mon is leuere...