- EAN13
- 9782386260629
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 05/03/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782386260629
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This work presents the history of Scotland.
The kingdom of Scotland, so far as it could be said to exist at the time of
the Norman conquest of England, was of very recent origin and of constantly
fluctuating dimensions. It is true that in the earlier half of the ninth
century, Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Scots of Dalriada, overcame the Picts
by the help of the Danes, and, in 844, became the first monarch over all
Alban, or, as it subsequently came to be called, Scotia...
If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was
when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should
recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains. The rivers, in the
plains, overflowed their present banks; dense forests of oak and pine, haunted
by great red deer, elks, and boars, covered land that has long been arable.
There were lakes and lagoons where for centuries there have been fields of
corn. On the oldest sites of our towns were groups of huts made of clay and
wattle, and dominated, perhaps, by the large stockaded house of the tribal
prince. In the lochs, natural islands, or artificial islets made of piles
(crannogs), afforded standing-ground and protection to villages, if indeed
these lake-dwellings are earlier in Scotland than the age of war that followed
the withdrawal of the Romans.
The kingdom of Scotland, so far as it could be said to exist at the time of
the Norman conquest of England, was of very recent origin and of constantly
fluctuating dimensions. It is true that in the earlier half of the ninth
century, Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Scots of Dalriada, overcame the Picts
by the help of the Danes, and, in 844, became the first monarch over all
Alban, or, as it subsequently came to be called, Scotia...
If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was
when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should
recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains. The rivers, in the
plains, overflowed their present banks; dense forests of oak and pine, haunted
by great red deer, elks, and boars, covered land that has long been arable.
There were lakes and lagoons where for centuries there have been fields of
corn. On the oldest sites of our towns were groups of huts made of clay and
wattle, and dominated, perhaps, by the large stockaded house of the tribal
prince. In the lochs, natural islands, or artificial islets made of piles
(crannogs), afforded standing-ground and protection to villages, if indeed
these lake-dwellings are earlier in Scotland than the age of war that followed
the withdrawal of the Romans.
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