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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : UIUC:30112065525393
Author : Alfred Wintle Johnston,Amy Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : CHI:097515339
Author : J. A. B. Townsend
Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : 0903521261
Author : Alfred Wintle Johnston,Amy Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : CHI:097515745
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : UCAL:$B757114
Author : M. L. Parry,T. R. Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000394047
Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming ‘system’ came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.
Author : Viking Club, or Society for Northern Research (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : WISC:89097610935
Author : Ernest Marwick
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788852722
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the 'simmer din'. Originally Norwegian, they have been part of Scotland for five hundred years, but their many and varied legends, folk tales and customs are still saturated with Norse influences. While this book tells tales and discusses beliefs that are known throughout the northern isles, it also outlines those elements which are unique to each island group. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland is the standard account of what to this day is one of the richest repositories of lore and custom in Britain. Ernest Marwick not only recounts countless tales which have been transmitted aurally and by writing, but also places these tales within geographical and historical contexts, thus enabling a deeper appreciation of this wonderful material. A bibliography is also included, together with an index of tale types and motifs.
Author : Patrick Hanks,Richard Coates,Peter McClure
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192527479
Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Nonie Sharp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802085490
In October of 2001, the Australian High Court confirmed aboriginal title to two thousand kilometres of ocean off the north coast. The decision, which was the result of a seven-year court battle, highlighted aboriginal belief that the sea is a gift from the creator to be used for sustenance, spirituality, identity, and community. This evocative study of the people of northern coastal Australia and their sea worlds illuminates the power of human attachment to place. Saltwater People: The Waves of Memory offers a cross-disciplinary approach to native land claims that incorporates historical and contemporary case studies from not only Australia, but also New Zealand, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada. Nonie Sharp discusses various issues of indigenous heritage, including land claims, concepts of public and private property, poverty, and the environment. Despite dispossession, the aboriginals of northern coastal Australia never faltered in their devotion to the sea, illustrating how profoundly such bonds are preserved in memory. Their moving story of surviving and winning a lengthy court battle provides valuable information for all countries dealing with similar issues of rights to tenure and natural resources. Sharp provides the first book-length study of an integrated statement on the many defining qualities of the cultural relationship of aboriginals, non-aboriginals, and the concept of ownership over the sea, and illustrates the wisdom that different traditions can offer one another.
Author : Alexander Fenton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1862320586
The Northern Isles stand at a crossroads of North Atlantic Europe, subject to the competing influences of Scandinavia and Scotland. Sandy Fenton's detailed study of the material culture of Orkney and Shetland is combined with thorough linguistic analysis and is based on years of study and sifting of a mass of detail. Much of the material is new, based on extensive research by the author, on manuscript and other written sources and on knowledge freely imparted by many local inhabitants. It illuminates the complexity of numerous interlocking factors, draws a picture of a fascinating and varied existence and reveals the past not as a static tableau but a process of continuous change. This book recreates the physical environment in which the people lived, their crops and livestock, the harvest of the sea, their houses, the food they ate. These things dominated their lives and form the background which is the key to understanding the character of these fascinating islands. This major work has earned its place as a key contribution to European ethnology and won the Dag Stromback Award of the Royal Gustav Academy, Sweden.
Author : George F. Black
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 2181 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781788852968
First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question (with many cross-references), making it an indispensable tool for those researching their own family history, as well as readers with a general interest in Scottish history. An informative introduction and glossary also provide much useful information.
Author : Roger D. Abrahams,Lois Rankin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292711433
Eeny, meeny, figgledy, fig. Delia, dolia, dominig, Ozy, pozy doma-nozy, Tee, tau, tut, Uggeldy, buggedy, boo! Out goes you. (no. 129) You can stand, And you can sit, But, if you play, You must be it. (no. 577) Counting-out rhymes are used by children between the ages of six and eleven as a special way of choosing it and beginning play. They may be short and simple ("O-U-T spells out/And out goes you") or relatively long and complicated; they may be composed of ordinary words, arrant nonsense, or a mixture of the two. Roger D. Abrahams and Lois Rankin have gathered together a definitive compendium of counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980. These they discovered in over two hundred sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including rhymes from England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Representative texts are given for 582 separate rhymes, with a comprehensive listing of sources and variants for each one, as well as information on each rhyme's provenience, date, and use. Cross-references are provided for variants whose first lines differ from those of the representative texts. Abrahams's introduction discusses the significance of counting-out rhymes in children's play. Children's folklore and speech play have attracted increasing attention in recent years. Counting-Out Rhymes will be a valuable resource for researchers in this field.
Author : Alfred W. Johnston,Amy Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404602207
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN : UCAL:B3465033