Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . 50S to 542, when he ^^•as slain at the Arthurs Scat.] ORIGIN OF THE NAME. 305 battle of Camelon, unsupported tradition has alwaysalleged that Arthurs Seat obtained its name ; while?with equal veracity the craigs are said to havebeen so entitled from the Earl of Salisbury, whoaccompanied Edward III. in one of his invasionsof Scotland, an idle story told by Arnot, and oftenrepeated since. Maitland, a much more acute writer, says, thatthe idea of the mountain being named from Arthur,a British or Cimrian king, I cannot give
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . 50S to 542, when he ^^•as slain at the Arthurs Scat.] ORIGIN OF THE NAME. 305 battle of Camelon, unsupported tradition has alwaysalleged that Arthurs Seat obtained its name ; while?with equal veracity the craigs are said to havebeen so entitled from the Earl of Salisbury, whoaccompanied Edward III. in one of his invasionsof Scotland, an idle story told by Arnot, and oftenrepeated since. Maitland, a much more acute writer, says, thatthe idea of the mountain being named from Arthur,a British or Cimrian king, I cannot give into, and Do thou not thus, brigane, thou sail be brynt,With pik, tar, fire, gunpoldre, and lyntOn ArthurisSete, or on a hyar hyll. And this is seventy-seven years before the publica-tion of Camdens Britannia, in which it is sonamed. But this is not the only Arthurs Seat inScotland, as there is one near the top of LochLong, and a third near Dunnichen in Forfarshire. Concerning the adjacent craigs, Lord Hailes in anote to the first volume of his Annals, says of the. THE nOLYROOD DAIRY.* {fn>m n t .iiWjA h ^- Jii A,,/,l)[Tlie circular structure in the bacliground to the right was a temporary Government store.] adds that he considers the appellation of ArthursSeat to be a corruption of the Gaelic Ard-na-Said,which implies the Height of Arrows ; than whichnothing can be more probable; for no spot oft^round is fitter for the exercise of archery, eitherat butts or rovers, than this; wherefore Ard-na-Said, by an easy transition, might well be changedto Arthurs Seat. Many have asserted the latter to be a name ofyesterday, but it certainly bore it at the date ofWalter Kennedys poem, his flyting, with Dunbar,which was published in 1508 :— precipice now called Salisbury Craigs; some ofmy readers may wish to be informed of the originof a word so familiar to them. In tlie Anglo-Saxon language, sat-r, sere, means dry, u>it!iercd,7uaste. The Anglo-Saxon termination of Burgh,Bitrh,
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