Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
During the period when the boundaries of Scotland had been thus extended
by the kings of this dynasty, its population was composed of several
distinct races, partly of Teutonic and partly of Celtic origin, forming
a people of very mixed descent, in which the Teutonic element was
gradually predominating more and more over the Celtic, and either
absorbing the latter or confining it to the more barren and mountain
regions of the country. The constituent elements of this population bore
six different names. These were the Picts and the Cumbrians or Britons,
the Scots and Angles, the Norwegians, and the Franks or Normans, and we
find them distinguished by these names under the rule of the Scoto-Saxon
monarchs, till they gradually become merged in the general name of
Scots. Thus the charters of Eadgar and Alexander the First are addressed
to their subjects, both Scots and Angles. Those by David the First and
Malcolm the Fourth sometimes to Scots and Angles, at other times to
Franks or Normans and Angles, and frequently to Franks and Angles, Scots
and Galwegians or Picts, while in the charters of the subsequent kings
these distinctions disappear. When the whole force of the kingdom was
called out by David the First at the invasion of England which
terminated in the disastrous battle of the Standard, we find that his
army, according to Richard of Hexham, was composed of Normans, Germans,
Angles, Northumbrians and Cumbrians of Teviotdale, of Lothian, of Picts
commonly called Galwegians, and of Scots,[11] while, according to
Ailred, the army was arranged in the following battalions. The first was
composed of the Galuenses or Galwegian Picts; the second of the
Cumberenses and Teviotdalenses or Britons of Strathclyde and Teviotdale;
the third of the Laodonenses, Insulani, and Lauernani, that is, a mixed
battalion of Angles of Lothian, Norwegians of the Isles, and the Gaelic
people of the Lennox; and the king had in his own battalion the Scotti
and Muravenses, that is, the people of Scotland between the Forth and
the Spey and of the great province of Moray, which he had recently
subjected, beyond it, and along with them ‘Milites Angli et Franci,’[12]
or Saxon and Norman barons.
[Sidenote: Indigenous races of the Britons and Picts.]
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