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Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B757149
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104482827
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330798945
Excerpt from The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland The history and antiquities of Shetland have at all times possessed for me an absorbing interest; and this it has fortunately been in my power to gratify, during a long series of years, in a practical way, by the excavation of ancient structures now in ruins; by discoveries of remains of the prehistoric age and of inscribed and sculptured monuments of the Celts and Scandinavians who in succession have occupied the islands; as well as by glimpses, often unexpected and curious, of local life in the olden time, which have rewarded the exploration of many musty records. In the General Register House, in the Charter House of the City of Edinburgh, in the Advocates' Library, in the Sheriff Court depositories of Shetland, and in the charter-chests of old families of the county, many treasures in the line of my inquiries are stored. These treasures have all been readily and most courteously placed at my disposal whenever desired; and my best thanks are due to the public officials and private gentlemen who have been so willing in every way to aid me in my efforts. My regret is that limitations of my own time have compelled those researches to be so brief and so cursory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243688628
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230241175
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... in a paper in the 'Memoirs de la Societe des Antiquaires du Nord, ' 1850-60. IV. Testament of Sir David Sinclair of Sumburgh, 1506. Equally interesting indications of the more opulent life in the islands in early times are found in the testament of Sir David Sinclair of Sumburgh, signed at Tingwall 9th July 1506. Sir David was third son of Earl William St Clair, from whose other sons and daughters he obtained the Sumburgh and other properties in Shetland, by deed dated at Edinburgh, 3rd December 1498. He was high in esteem with the King of Denmark and Norway, and while occupying the position of Great Fowde of Shetland, held at the same time the appointment of Captain General of the fortress at Bergen in Norway. In the Will, a copy of which is preserved among the papers of the Sheriff Court of Orkney, and has been printed in the 'Miscellany' of the Bannatyne Club, we find that all Sir David's inherited property in Shetland, together with valuable personal property, was bequeathed to Lord Sinclair, while Lady Sinclair and other noble friends were suitably remembered, and the following Shetlanders--viz., Thorrald of Brucht, Richard Lesk, William Spens--and others received various small lands and other presents. To St George's altar, in the Danish cathedral of Roeskilde, he left the gold chain which he got from the King of Denmark; a cup was destined for St Magnus Church at Tingwall, but seems never to have reached that place, and his black velvet cloak was left in the proportions of two-thirds to the church at Tingwall, and the remaining one-third to the Cross Kirk of Dunrossness, a venerable fabric which existed for 300 years later, only to be swept away at the end of the eighteenth century by a barbarity ever to be reprobated and deplored...
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:39000005879338
Author : Wilfrid Bonser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Rachel C. Barrowman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351192217
"This volume is the definitive account of the excavation which led to the discovery of the magnificent hoard of 28 pieces of Pictish silverware on St Ninian's Isle, Shetland in 1958. It includes a reassessment of the original archives and finds, including an ogham stone found on the site in 1876 and a fantastic collection of glass beads, as well as several new small-scale excavations on the site of the chapel and its burial ground. Taken together, this work reveals a long sequence of settlement beginning in the Iron Age. The first church was built on the site in the 8th century, and accompanied by a long cist cemetery with cross-incised stones and shrine sculpture. The church may have continued in use into the 9th or 10th centuries, and the recent work has confirmed that the famous hoard was buried into its floor. There was a degree of continuity between the pre-Christian and Christian burials, with evidence that the site was a special place for burial before the advent of Christianity. The report describes these burials in detail, ending the story sometime between the 11th and end of the 12th centuries, when an adult male who had died a violent death was moved to be buried on the site. Thereafter the site was inundated with wind-blown sand. A new chapel with an accompanying long cist cemetery was then built above the earlier church, and a chancel was added later. The associated graveyard continued in use until around 1840, long after the building was demolished."
Author : Hans Frede Nielsen,Lene Schøsler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272799
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994
Author : Barbara E. Crawford
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857906182
The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island and mainland territory survived as a single lordship for 600 years, against the odds. Growing out of the Viking maelstrom of the early Middle Ages, it became an established and wealthy principality which dominated northern waters, with a renowned dynasty of earls. Despite their peripheral location these earls were fully in touch with the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland and increasingly subject to the rulers of these kingdoms. How they maintained their independence and how they survived the clash of loyalties are themes explored in this book from the early Viking age to the late medieval era when the powerful feudal Sinclair earls ruled the islands and regained possession of Caithness. This is a story of the time when the Northern Isles of Scotland were part of a different national entity which explains the background to the non-Gaelic culture of this locality, when links across the North Sea were as important as links with the kingdom of Scotland to the south.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Iceland
ISBN : IND:30000121038248
Author : Jodie Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443835435
Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of perspectives to provide answers to such questions, examining war, empire, tourism, immigration, language, literature, and everyday life on and in islands, and the question of travel to and from them. Britishness is highlighted as a global island phenomenon, providing an insight into the history, culture and politics of identities from Jersey to Jamaica. Islands and Britishness not only brings together various contemporary strands in Island Studies, but uniquely focuses on the relationship – historical, cultural and economic – between particular islands and Britain, and, crucially, how this relationship frames national identity both on the island and in Britain itself. The collection examines interactions between Britishness and indigenous or earlier invasive/settler cultures, as well as the internal differences within the concept of ‘Britishness’ (Britain/Scotland/Shetland, for instance). It considers the relationship played out on the island between Britishness and the other nationalities with which the islands share an affinity, and questions received wisdoms about national identity on the islands by considering intersecting discourses such as class and gender. The collection offers a global perspective on the divisions within a notion of Britishness and the identities against which Britishness has been constructed.
Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1901341070
Up-Helly-Aa is Europe's largest and most spectacular winter fire festival. In the biting Arctic wind on the last Tuesday of every January, a Guizer Jarl leads one thousand men in guising costumes with flaming torches through the streets of Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Isles, accompanying a Viking galley to its ceremonial burning.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 1035 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496237088
Author : Patrick Hanks,Richard Coates,Peter McClure
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.