. Scotland in the Middle Ages; sketches of early Scotch history and social progress. e existence of two Pictish kingdoms. The whole country —all Pict-land and Scot-land — was now under one government;though, as I have said, I think the population remained nearlyunchanged fiom Bedes time. In like manner, the names of Cumbria, Strathcluyd, Bernicia,Deira, are rather the shadows of former petty kingdoms than actualexisting separate governments. The first two left their namesto known districts, and to a peculiar people—peculiar in laws,manners, and language ; the others had long ago disappeared, l
. Scotland in the Middle Ages; sketches of early Scotch history and social progress. e existence of two Pictish kingdoms. The whole country —all Pict-land and Scot-land — was now under one government;though, as I have said, I think the population remained nearlyunchanged fiom Bedes time. In like manner, the names of Cumbria, Strathcluyd, Bernicia,Deira, are rather the shadows of former petty kingdoms than actualexisting separate governments. The first two left their namesto known districts, and to a peculiar people—peculiar in laws,manners, and language ; the others had long ago disappeared, leav-ing the limits of their territories a matter for conjecture, and theirpeople so mixed and scattered, that even in the tenth century theyhad no known representatives. It may be thought that I have restricted too much the portionof the Norsemen, as in the tenth century; but I cannot findevidence of their colonizing or steady government, for any spaceto be noticed in a map, beyond their known and recognized earl-doms of Orkney and Caithness (including Sutherland). Down the.
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