 | William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1837 - 330 pages
...the chronicles are altogether silent until we find his son Kenneth in the undisturbed possession of the whole of Scotland north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde. Such being a short outline of the events which occurred between the year 731 and the Scottish conquest,... | |
 | William Latham Bevan - Geography - 1869 - 698 pages
...and Horsa. By degrees the Teutonic tribes established their supremacy over the whole of Britain S. of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, with the exception of the western districts, Cornwall, Wales, and Strathclyde, which were retained by the Cymry. Whether the... | |
 | John of Fordun - 1872 - 582 pages
...testament, where no direct descendants existed, and bequeathed to his brother Alexander the kingdom of Scotland north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde with the title of king ; and the districts south of the Firths to his youngest brother David with the title... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1878 - 558 pages
...Brude, the Pictish king, at his dun on the river Ness.1The territorial dominion of the Picts included the whole of Scotland north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, excepting the district lying to the north of the Clyde, called Darliada, and occupied by the Scots.... | |
 | Globe encyclopaedia - 1879 - 642 pages
...notion of the Pictish territories we must come down to the yth c., when we find all the country N. of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, with the exception of the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada (Argyllshire), held by the Northern and Southern P., the boundary line... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1887 - 546 pages
...island, then, of lona, Columba founded his church, which not only for a time embraced within its fold the whole of Scotland north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, and was for a century and a half the national church of Scotland, hut was destined to give to the Angles... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - Clans - 1887 - 636 pages
...fourth and fifth centuries on the West. At the time of the Roman Conquest, the portion of Scotland south of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, with the exception of the so-called Picts of Galloway, is allowed to have been Brythonic. Ptolemy, the geographer, who wrote... | |
 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - Natural history - 1895 - 818 pages
...union of the Picts and Scots under one sovereign formed an important era in the history of Scotland. The whole of Scotland, north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, was welded into one kingdom which was never afterwards broken up into separate principalities. The... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - Scotland - 1899 - 452 pages
...character and destiny. At the close of the 6th century the nation of the Picts occupied the country to the north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, with the exception of the modern Argyleshire '. They were themselves divided into the Northern and the Southern Picts — the... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1902 - 476 pages
...the chronicles .are altogether silent until we find his son Kenneth in the undisturbed possession of the whole of Scotland north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde. Such being a short outline of the events which occurred between the year 731 and the Scottish conquest,... | |
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They were themselves divided into the Northern and the Southern Picts — the latter occupying the territory corresponding to the counties of Perth, Fife, Forfar, and Kincardine. At the moment when they first Roman implements found at Newstead. 
