kings and their successors were consecrated, its only migration, unless it was removed from _Dunfothir_ to _Scone_, having been undertaken at the order of Edward the First; though after the Gaelic people of Scotland had identified their own ancestry with that of the MacAlpin line of princes the _Lia Fail_ necessarily became mixed up with the supposed wanderings of the latter. [36] The early Frank kings used to migrate in this way from _manor_ to _manor_, and the custom long prevailed amongst the Scandinavians. It was the origin of the “_sorning_,” a word derived from the same source as the French _sejourner_, and “_Waldgastnung_,” so often prohibited in the old laws of Scotland and the north. The Anglo-Saxons were perfectly well acquainted with the same custom, and lands were held for a certain number of “night’s _feorm_”--so many nights’ free quarters _originally_,--the name of the tenure being at length permanently transferred to the _tenant_ and _tenement_. Hence our words _Farmer_ and _Farm_. [37] Most of the materials for this sketch have been taken from “Martin’s Western Isles,” the “Irish Annals,” and the “Works of the Irish Archæological Society,” particularly the “Hy Fiachrach,” where the subject is ably illustrated by Mr. O’Donovan in _Appendix L_. The “Circuit of Murketagh” contains an interesting account of the manner in which hostages and tribute were exacted, and the different methods of proceeding with kinsmen, allies, and rivals. The theory of _Tanistry_ extended to ecclesiastical offices, and we meet with _Tanist_ bishops and _Adbhar_ abbots; the former signifying, apparently, the successor _actually_ chosen, the latter one _eligible_ to be chosen. Thus, and in many other ways, the old Celtic principle of division appears to have gradually pervaded their branch of the church. Even the careful separation of sacerdotal _authority_ from practical _power_ seems to have clung to the Gaelic people for some time after their conversion; for while the Hy Nial for centuries monopolized the supreme power, the _Primacy_ was the exclusive appanage of the Clan Colla, _a race excluded from the throne_. [38] A king of Atholl was amongst the rivals who succumbed to Angus (_Tigh._ 739), and from the foundation of Dunkeld and St. Andrews by Constantine and the second Angus, it may be gathered that the provinces connected with those monasteries were “in the crown.” In the Irish annals _Fortreim_ is latterly almost synonymous with the kingdom of the Picts. Its capital, _Dun-Fothir_, was evidently the Scottish _Tara_, and _Dundurn_ in the north perhaps the Scottish _Cashel_. Moray and Mærne seem to have long been the leading subdivisions of the north, but it would be difficult to name the corresponding divisions of the south. Abernethy appears to have been connected with Strathearn, Dunkeld with Atholl, and St. Andrews with Fife.