. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. HE palace of Falkland stands in thecounty of Fife, at the north-east footof the East Lomond, one of twomountains which rise abruptly in themidst flf a plain of considerable represents the present sitei)f the castle and town of Falkland asa station occupied by the ninth Romanlegion. The name of the j)lace is supposed byDr. Jamieson to be of 8uo-Gothic derivation—the word Falk signifying a species of hawk, which he supposes to have frequented thisonce celebrated spot. But without ha^^ng recourse to Gothic lore, wemay at on
. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. HE palace of Falkland stands in thecounty of Fife, at the north-east footof the East Lomond, one of twomountains which rise abruptly in themidst flf a plain of considerable represents the present sitei)f the castle and town of Falkland asa station occupied by the ninth Romanlegion. The name of the j)lace is supposed byDr. Jamieson to be of 8uo-Gothic derivation—the word Falk signifying a species of hawk, which he supposes to have frequented thisonce celebrated spot. But without ha^^ng recourse to Gothic lore, wemay at once adopt the more modern and simple etymon of Falvonland,^i. e. the land of Fa/conn/ ; for although the name is variously sj)elt, Falconland is the term most frequently used in ancient records. Falkland claims remote antiquity ; it formed j)art of the pro})erty ofthe Earls of Fife, the descendants of ^Macduff, Thane of Fife, wlio attainedso much celebrity in the reign of Malcolm Canmore by vanquisiiing theusin-jjer Macbeth, and by having been chletly
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