The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Their Main Features and Relations, المجلد 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893 |
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... haugh or flat land . But any one who views the region from one of its higher hills will be struck with the VOL . I. A predominating mountainous appearance of the country , and will almost CHAP THE BORDER COUNTRY -GENERAL ASPECT- GEOLOGY ...
... haugh or flat land . But any one who views the region from one of its higher hills will be struck with the VOL . I. A predominating mountainous appearance of the country , and will almost CHAP THE BORDER COUNTRY -GENERAL ASPECT- GEOLOGY ...
الصفحة 19
... haugh of the Tweed were , as yet , green pastoral braes , unbroken by plough and harrow , and unadorned by masses of larch poles , each looking like a half - opened umbrella in summer , and the whole like a dull brown blanket in autumn ...
... haugh of the Tweed were , as yet , green pastoral braes , unbroken by plough and harrow , and unadorned by masses of larch poles , each looking like a half - opened umbrella in summer , and the whole like a dull brown blanket in autumn ...
الصفحة 20
... haugh - land of the valley of the Tweed , and the rich verdure in the hollows of the waters and burns . Once on the summit of the height , we find immediately around us a vast level plain , with short and scanty herb- age , chiefly hill ...
... haugh - land of the valley of the Tweed , and the rich verdure in the hollows of the waters and burns . Once on the summit of the height , we find immediately around us a vast level plain , with short and scanty herb- age , chiefly hill ...
الصفحة 23
... haugh , with Minchmuir , that lent its old bridle - path for the flight of Montrose . In Teviotdale , which you see in the dim distance holding up before you Penchryse Pen , the Paps , and Windburgh , are the battle - fields of Hadden ...
... haugh , with Minchmuir , that lent its old bridle - path for the flight of Montrose . In Teviotdale , which you see in the dim distance holding up before you Penchryse Pen , the Paps , and Windburgh , are the battle - fields of Hadden ...
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... haugh - in fact , in a peat - bog — on the farm of Cademuir , in Manor , close to what in the old leases is very suggestively called the Welsh Burn . But , as a rule , the elevation of those forts is from 400 or 500 to about 1400 feet ...
... haugh - in fact , in a peat - bog — on the farm of Cademuir , in Manor , close to what in the old leases is very suggestively called the Welsh Burn . But , as a rule , the elevation of those forts is from 400 or 500 to about 1400 feet ...
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Abbey Aethelfrith afterwards 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 Guledig haugh hills Historia Britonum Ibid 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 Tristrem Tweed Tweeddale Urien valley wall Water Welsh wild Wood of Caledon Yarrow