Celtic Scotland

Chapter 2: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

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A scholarly survey of medieval Scotland’s internal organization, this volume examines land tenure, tribal and kinship-based property systems, and the social conditions that shaped settlement and agriculture. It traces how multiple population groups inhabited and interacted across regional boundaries, explores the movement from tribal customs toward feudal consolidation, and assesses the effects of maritime incursions and northern settlements on local communities. The text combines legal and comparative Celtic sources with chapter notes, appendices that present Gaelic texts alongside English translations, and supporting indexes to document the linguistic and documentary evidence used.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

A new edition of this the third and last volume of Celtic Scotland having now been called for, the author is glad to have this opportunity of correcting any mistakes of the press which have occurred in it. As this volume deals with the early land tenures and social condition of the Celtic inhabitants of Scotland, in which a number of obsolete terms and old Celtic words occur, it is peculiarly liable to mistakes of this kind, and the author has revised the text in this view with great care, but he does not find that he has any material alteration to make in the views he has expressed, or the conclusions he has come to, as these are, in fact, the outcome of years of careful research into this very obscure subject.

Edinburgh, 27 Inverleith Row,

7th July 1890.