The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . stoms. It was different inthe west of Scotland and in the Western Islands EARLY CELTIC ART. 25 where great numbers of Danes and Norwegianswere absorbed by the Celtic race, and their languagecontinued in these regions. Only a brief reference to early Celtic art can begiven. A few vestiges of primitive church buildingstill remain in the Western Islands. The roundtowers of Brechin and Abernethy present an in-teresting type of early architectural structure. Theyshow a striking resemblance to the round towers ofIreland. The r
The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . stoms. It was different inthe west of Scotland and in the Western Islands EARLY CELTIC ART. 25 where great numbers of Danes and Norwegianswere absorbed by the Celtic race, and their languagecontinued in these regions. Only a brief reference to early Celtic art can begiven. A few vestiges of primitive church buildingstill remain in the Western Islands. The roundtowers of Brechin and Abernethy present an in-teresting type of early architectural structure. Theyshow a striking resemblance to the round towers ofIreland. The round tower of Brechin stands at thesouth-west angle of the church, but was originally sepa-rate from it. The chief characteristic of Celtic art is itselaborate and beautiful ornamentation. This featureappears on weapons and personal ornaments andother objects. The peculiar style of ornament occurson the early sculptured stones of Scotland. Thisclass of monuments is chiefly found to the northof the Tay, and is believed to belong to the eighth,ninth, and tenth IV. THE NATION IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTHCENTURIES. The Norman conquest of England had the effect offorcing a number of Saxons into Scotland, and a littlelater a small number of Norman nobles frequentedthe court of the Scotch kings, and received manygrants of land by charter from the Crown. In thisway legal feudalism was slowly introduced and spreadover the kingdom, though it was long and bitterlyopposed in some parts of the country. But beforethe end of the thirteenth century feudalism was esta-blished in the Lowlands ; and Lowland Scotch—an English dialect—was gradually encroaching on theCeltic tongue. This dialect appeared in Lothian andthe south-east in the sixth century, and spread roundthe north-east coasts as the Celtic language receded ;and this change of language would have proceeded inScotland though there had been no Norman conquestof England. On the death of King Edgar at Edinburgh in 1107his
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