The history of the ancient Scots. In three parts

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FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE NINTH CENTURY TO THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH.

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THE HEBRIDES UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY.— SOMERLED,.—CHIEFS DESCENDED FROM SOMERLED.

BY THE

Rev. DUNCAN M‘CALLUM,

Author of the & History of the Culdees,” &c. &c Member of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archeological Society.

JOHN MENZIES, EDINBURGH ; HOULSTON AND STONEMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

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Contents

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Part I. The Origin of the Ancient Scots; the Celtze, their

Language, Institutions, and Laws, -

Separation of the Celtaa—Germany—Gaul—British Isles, 18

The Tuetones, or Sarmate, - . - : The Gothic Race in the Western Isles, - 4 The Scots and Picts, - - : : The Romans and Caledonians, - - - The Britons and Saxons, - - - 5 The Erinich and Albinich, - . 2 : The Siol-Chuinn—Dalriads—A ttacotti—Maztz, : The Apostle of the Irish, - - - 5 The Apostle of the Picts, - - - 4

ALPIN, - 2 . ‘ : ¥ KENNETH MACALPIN, : “ i Donat I. - : ag ae 4 B CoNSTANTINE I. ~ 3 ‘ s it Hua, surnamed Alipes, - 5 a 2 GRIG, - - : z : Donat I. - = 4 x : 2 CoNSTANTINE IT. “a; é z Matcorm I. - - i F e c INDULF, - - : Ss : ‘ vi CONTENTS.

DUFF, -~ - - - - - page 91 CULEN, - - - - - - 95 KENNETH II. - - - - - 98 CONSTANTINE III. - - - - - 106 KENNETH, surnamed Grif, - - - 2 OS MAtcorm II. - - . - aap Uf $- Duncanl. - - ~ - - - 118 MACBETH, - - - - - -- 123 MALCOLM CANMORE, - - - mie he Donat Ban, - - - - - - 142 Duncan II. - - - - - - 148 EDGAR, - - - - - me ©: 2: ALEXANDER I. - - - - - 144 DAVID, - - - - - - 147 THE LocHuins in the West Highlands, - = (LBS MaAtcoum [V. - - - - - 165 WILLIAM THE LION, -— - - - - 168 ALEXANDER II. - ~ - - +) Wi AFB ALEXANDER III. - - - awe at Part III.

THE HEBRIDES under the Government of Norway, 191 SOMERLED, Life of, - - - - - 200 Memoirs of Chiefs descended from Somerled, . viz.— THE Lorp OF THE ISLEs, - - ~ 205 ALLAN, Son of Roderick, - - <! eae RANALD GALDA, as - 5 ee QOS ALLAN CLANRANALD, - - -, a> “212 Sir ALEXANDER MACDONALD, - - - 214 NoveEs, < - - - ol) ial aaa

Preface

THERE are three views in which the history of the Ancient Scots has been considered. The first is the fabulous; the second, confounding them and the Picts; and the third, what may he called the “dark age” of the Scots. Those who have looked no farther than the last, fancied the nation to have been just then emerging from barbarism ; and they might have been heard comparing their ancestors with the ; native races of America. As this History comes not down to that unfavourable era, no notice shall be taken of the dim light in which the Scots appeared from the sixteenth century to the Union, a period of about two hundred years. It is not necessary to speak of the fabulous history, the writers of which have been fully exposed by Innes.

Had they looked to the great nation of whom they

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were descended, they needed not to have sought elsewhere for higher antiquity.

The confused state in which the Scots and the Picts have been represented, may not be so easily described in tracing the origin of the Scots, since writers that should have known better, differ, and the least favourable account has been adopted by some eminent authors.

All that is stated in Part Second will admit of no dispute, as the history of the nation“is simply narrated, with the lives of the kings who governed during the space of five centuries; and what relates to this period, but could not be con- | veniently inserted in the History, is given in