The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . This was the natural result of thelong struggle of the various tribes, as the accumulatingforce of circumstances and a common religion tendedto a greater concentration of power under some oneof the chief tribes. The actual kingdom whichKenneth McAlpin obtained only comprised a limitedpart of modern Scotland : it consisted of Argyle, thecounties of Perth, Fife, and parts of Forfar, Dumbarton, FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY. II and Stirling, with Scone, the Mount of Belief andRoyalty, as its chief seat. The districts beyond th
The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . This was the natural result of thelong struggle of the various tribes, as the accumulatingforce of circumstances and a common religion tendedto a greater concentration of power under some oneof the chief tribes. The actual kingdom whichKenneth McAlpin obtained only comprised a limitedpart of modern Scotland : it consisted of Argyle, thecounties of Perth, Fife, and parts of Forfar, Dumbarton, FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY. II and Stirling, with Scone, the Mount of Belief andRoyalty, as its chief seat. The districts beyond thiscentre on the north-east, the north, the west, andsouth, were only gradually and with extreme difficultysubdued as the nation developed to its ultimate the establishment of the historic monarchy underMcAlpin, the reigning monarchs were called kings ofthe Picts, then kings of Alban. Not till the tenthcentury was any part of the country called Scotland,but from the opening of the eleventh century thisname gradually came to be applied to the II INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY. The chief tribes, and the centre of the historickingdom, having thus been indicated, some accountmust be given of the introduction of a new was a prime factor in the development ofScotland. It became interwoven with the government,the institutions, the education, the literature, the music,the amusements, and the life of the people. Itsinfluence operated from the cradle to the grave. St. Ninian is amongst the earliest of the newteachers whose names have come down to us. Hewas the son of a British prince, and was educated inthe Christian faith at Rome. His life was written byAilred, a monk of the twelfth century, but it containslittle reliable information. Bede lived nearer to thesaints time, and records that Ninian converted thesouthern Picts, and built a church of stone, which wasunusual among them. This church was in Gallowayat a spot called Whithern, and it d
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